When and where will 2030 Winter Olympics be held?

The next Winter Olympics and Paralympics will take place in the French Alps region in 2030.

The Games are scheduled to take place from 1-17 February, with the Paralympics starting a month later between 1-17 March.

The French Alps bid was put forward as the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) preferred location and was approved in July 2024.

France has previously hosted the Winter Games three times, including the inaugural games in 1924, as well as 1968 and 1992.

It comes off the back of France's success in hosting the 2024 summer Olympic Games in Paris, where the hosts won a national record 64 medals.

The venues for the 2030 games will be split across the Alps region and feature in Nice, Briancon, Haute-Savoie, and Savoie.

La Plagne's sliding track, the Courchevel ski jump, and Meribel's Roc de Fer downhill alpine skiing course all previously held events during the 1992 Albertville Winter Olympics.

After hosting the Paris 2024 opening ceremony on the Seine river, the 2030 closing ceremony will take place on Nice's iconic Promenade des Anglais beach front. It will be the first time the ceremony has been held outside a stadium in the history of the Winter Olympics.

A venue for the opening ceremony is yet to be decided.

Salt Lake City, Utah, has been selected to host the 2034 Winter Games - they previously hosted in 2002.

They were initially set to bid for the 2030 Games but pulled out of the running because the date was considered too close to the 2028 summer Olympics in Los Angeles in California.

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