The next Games (if they happen) are as follows:
2024-Paris (Summer)
2026-Milano-Cortina-D’Ampezzo (Winter)
2028-Los Angeles (Summer)
2030- TBA (Winter)
2032-Brisbane (Summer)
A couple of things: WHY hasn’t the host city for the 2030 Winter Games been announced? Could it be no one wants it?
And the 2028 Games in LA..IF there’s a city left, and with the economy the way it is, can they even pull it off?
And with my idea of ‘no totalitarian country’ hosting the Games, considering what’s going on Down Under with how they’re reacting to Covid, does Australia now qualify as ‘totalitarian’?
For the LA Olympics..no need to book a hotel room.
Bring a tent.
2030 looks like Barcelona or Vancouver. After Los Angeles got the summer, Utah became more likely to bid for 2034. Other potential sites look too politically iffy, due to the potential of insecure democracies: Almaty, Kazakstan; the formerly Soviet Georgia; Lviv, Ukraine; Sarajevo; Ufa, Russia... oh, and Vancouver.
The IOC usually announces locations 7 years out, so it would not be time yet to award the 2030 location.
From the Sporting News:
The site for the 2030 Winter Games has not yet been determined. Two previous hosts, Vancouver (2010) and Sapporo, Japan (1972) are in the bid process. Taking a page from Beijing, 1992 Summer Games host Barcelona also is in the running as part of a joint bid known as Barcelona-Pyrenees that also includes proposed venues in France and Andorra. The 2002 host, Salt Lake City, also is interested in another go at it but reportedly is focused on 2034 due to the proximity of the Los Angeles Games in 2028.
This Quartz article has a convoluted explanation of why Brisbane was chosen 11 years out as part of a new corruption resistant selection process.
How does the new selection process work?
As early as 11 years before an Olympiad (in the case of Brisbane), two “Future Host Commissions” made up of interested parties in the world of sports and the Olympic movement launch informal and confidential exchanges with potential host cities. They run “feasibility assessments,” which “highlight opportunities and challenges,” make sure the costs are manageable, and that construction plans are in line with environmental and human rights standards.
They then enter into a more “targeted dialogue” with a specific city. They can recommend that city to the IOC executive board, which can choose it as a “preferred host,” and then all the IOC members vote on it. There’s no specific timeline and the candidate cities are in “continuous dialogue” with the IOC and the Commissions, so there’s no expensive, one-time formal submission.
A successful Brisbane Games could help the Olympics
“Brisbane 2032 is the first future host to have been elected under, and to have fully benefited from, the new flexible approach to electing Olympic hosts,” IOC president Thomas Bach said in a press release. “The reforms enable the IOC to work in partnership with cities, regions, and countries, to encourage Olympic projects which use a high percentage of existing and temporary venues, which align with long-term development plans, and which have a strong vision for sports and local communities.”
And the 2028 Games in LA..IF there’s a city left, and with the economy the way it is, can they even pull it off?
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Do you think Newsom will have relaxed his COVID restrictions by then? /sarc
Seriously, LA is not fit for an Olympic venue & I don’t think they’ll be ‘ready’ in 2028.