The 2030 Winter Olympics will be held in the French Alps, marking France's second time hosting the Winter Games and the return of the event to Europe. The opening ceremony is scheduled for February 1st, 2030, with the closing ceremony on February 17th. NBC and Eurosport will handle the broadcasting.
Prior to this year's Milan Cortina dual location, the last time Europe hosted the Winter Games was in 2006 — also in Italy. That year, it wasIn four years time, the attention will stay in Europe once again, but the Winter Games are moving northwest to a border country.
The Olympics are organized every four years, so the next Winter Games will take place in 2030. The Opening Ceremony is set for Feb. 1, with the Closing Ceremony on Feb. 17.The 2030 Olympics will be hosted in the French Alps. The games will officially be known as the 2030 French Alps Olympics or French Alps 2030. The International Olympic Committee nominated the French Alps as its preferred candidate on Nov. 29, 2023, then approved the bid during the 142nd IOC Session in Paris on July 24, 2024.The French Alps are a portion of the Alps mountain range that stand within France in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur regions. The Alps also extends to Italy and Switzerland.in Nice, a famous and public coastline walk. Such a location and style for the ceremony would be an Olympic first, though similar to theThe 2030 Games will not be the first time France has hosted for winter sports. The nation hosted the first ever Winter Olympics in 1924. Here's the list, with each city along the French Alps region:The Olympic cauldron of the 1992 Albertville Winter Games is pictured prior to a ceremony organised to mark the arrival of the Olympic rings ahead of the French Alps 2030 Winter Olympic Games at the Courchevel Olympic ski jump site, on January 30, 2026. NBC will once again be the broadcasting home for the Winter Olympics in 2030, as television and streaming rights in the U.S. will remain with NBCUniversal's platforms. In France, Warner Bros. Discovery via Eurosport has the paid television and streaming rights. Free-to-air coverage rights are owned by France Télévisions.NBC Olympics senior editor Nick Zaccardi explains how warming winters are forcing the IOC to rethink how the games are hosted, and where snowboarder Bea Kim fits into a changing Olympic landscape heading into Milan.
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