Will the 2030 Olympics take place in Switzerland?

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Organizing the Olympic Games in Switzerland? Well then good luck! Once you’ve done that, you can move on to easier projects. Selling a refrigerator to an Inuit, for example.

In the cantons of Valais and Graubünden, three votes were cast in the past ten years on an application for the Olympic Games, three times the voter rejected the idea. For 2002 and 2006, Sion hoped to shake hands as the organizer – at the time, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) did not want to.

It would be that time in seven years

This has now changed. Now the IOC wants. According to a report by “CH Media,” which coincides with information from Blick, an IOC delegation met with Swiss sports officials last week to discuss whether they could envision hosting the 2030 Winter Games.

Background: The IOC is now urgently looking for a venue for the games in seven years’ time and has therefore approached the Swiss sports umbrella organization Swiss Olympic to ask if they can envision this.

“The most important point is the definition of the preconditions that an Olympic candidacy must meet socially and nationally,” says Swiss Olympic. “From the point of view of Swiss Olympic, an application concept only has a chance if it is sustainable and the organization of the Olympic and Paralympic Games leaves a legacy that goes beyond sport – on the population, the economy, Switzerland as a location for innovation, etc. “

Next phase: Executive Council meeting on Thursday

The Swiss know: the IOC now thinks more sustainably when awarding the games and tries to work out the application together with the candidates. This led, for example, to the summer games of 2024 (Paris) and 2028 (Los Angeles) being awarded as a package – competition elections seem to be a thing of the past.

On Thursday, the Swiss Olympic Executive Council will discuss whether the file should be taken up further. When that happens, things get exciting. Then people have to be convinced of the idea. The best thing would be for Swiss Olympic President Jürg Stahl and Winter Games Coordination Head Ralph Stöckli to look for a refrigerator salesman from the Arctic.

Source : Blick