{"id":61100,"date":"2026-05-06T16:27:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/61100\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T16:27:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:27:27","slug":"geneva-could-host-one-of-europes-largest-sporting-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/61100\/","title":{"rendered":"Geneva could host one of Europe’s largest sporting events"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Tuesday, 5 May 2026 06:30\n <\/p>\n

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\n Eidgen\u00f6ssisches Schwing- und \u00c4lplerfest, Burgdorf (2013). (c) Martin Abegglen<\/p>\n

\n In five years time, Geneva could be hosting one of Europe\u2019s largest sporting events, which will mean building a temporary stadium – bigger than the Stade de Gen\u00e8ve.\n <\/p>\n

The Swiss Federal Wrestling Festival attracts half a million people over three days – that\u2019s the same number of people who attend the Wimbledon tennis tournament, but that’s over two weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Geneva is bidding to host in 2031 – and now has revealed where the stadium would be.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It would be built, out of entirely Swiss wood, on the Plainpalais and will seat 47,000. That’s 10,000 fewer than the previous event.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Even so, Geneva says it has the infrastructure in place already with good transport links and hotel space.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The final decision on the host canton – bidders also include Valais and Neuchatel – will be made next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, 5 May 2026 06:30 Eidgen\u00f6ssisches Schwing- und \u00c4lplerfest, Burgdorf (2013). (c) Martin Abegglen In five years time,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3166,3172,3173,3164,197,3171,3169,65,3175,3168,94,3167,3165,3170,1202,3163,3177,3176,1878,41,3179,17,3178,3174,3162,3161],"class_list":{"0":"post-61100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-geneva","8":"tag-anglophone-radio-station","9":"tag-broadcast","10":"tag-butcher","11":"tag-english-radio","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-expat","14":"tag-fm","15":"tag-geneva","16":"tag-geneve","17":"tag-internet-radio","18":"tag-lausanne","19":"tag-local-news-geneva","20":"tag-local-radio","21":"tag-media","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-radio-frontier","24":"tag-ski-news","25":"tag-ski-update","26":"tag-snow-report","27":"tag-swiss","28":"tag-swiss-news","29":"tag-switzerland","30":"tag-switzerland-news","31":"tag-whats-on","32":"tag-world-radio-switzerland","33":"tag-wrs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116528575001975155","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}