{"id":14502,"date":"2026-05-13T22:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T22:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/14502\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T22:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T22:17:09","slug":"heres-the-country-france-wants-to-help-host-the-2030-olympics-deseret-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/14502\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s the country France wants to help host the 2030 Olympics \u2013 Deseret News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not all the competitions at the 2030 Winter Games<\/a> will be held in France.<\/p>\n

Even before France\u2019s bid, combining the mountains in the north with the French Riviera in the south, was selected almost two years ago<\/a> as the 2030 host, sites in Italy and the Netherlands were under consideration for speedskating events.<\/p>\n

With a shortened time frame to prepare to welcome the world, organizers of what\u2019s known as the French Alps Games determined early on they didn\u2019t want to deal with building what would have been the country\u2019s first indoor speedskating oval for 2030.<\/p>\n

Now, they\u2019ve decided the best place for the long-track events is in the Netherlands, in Heerenveen, home of one of more than a dozen speedskating ovals in a country where about a third of the population<\/a> owns ice skates.<\/p>\n

\"\"New World Champion Sander Eitrem of Norway celebrates with the fans after the men’s 10000 meters speed skating race at the World Championships Allround in Heerenveen, Netherlands, Sunday, March 8, 2026. | Patrick Post, Associated Press <\/p>\n

The Thialf arena was selected over the speedskating oval used for the 2006 Winter Games<\/a> in Torino, Italy, the Francs Jeux website<\/a> reported this week, citing a French Alps organizing committee news release.<\/p>\n

Discussions with the Dutch venue \u201calready underway must now continue in order to finalize the conditions for hosting the competitions, as well as the governance and cooperation arrangements,\u201d the news release said, according to a translation.<\/p>\n

The news was welcomed in the Netherlands, which last hosted an Olympics in 1928.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d say don\u2019t cheer too soon, but we\u2019ve had good reports coming out of France that they want to keep talking with us about the long-track speed skating coming to the Netherlands in 2030,\u201d the Dutch Olympic committee\u2019s Marc van den Tweel reportedly told a TV interviewer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cOrganizing an event on the scale of the Winter Games requires a lot of money, time and energy, and a lot of things need to be arranged,\u201d he added, according to a translation in a Dutch News<\/a> story posted Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The English-language site\u2019s story<\/a> pointed out the \u201cneed to satisfy French and Olympic authorities on a range of issues from the quality of the ice in the arena to setting up an athletes\u2019 village and transport arrangements for spectators.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Marijke Groenewoud of the Netherlands competes in the women’s 5000 meters speed skating race at the World Championships Allround in Heerenveen, Netherlands, Sunday, March 8, 2026. | Patrick Post, Associated Press <\/p>\n

The president of Italy\u2019s Piedmont region, Alberto Cirio, and Torino Mayor Stefano Lo Russo said the bid to host Olympic speedskating \u201cconfirmed our region\u2019s international credibility in organizing major sporting events,\u201d Italy\u2019s Nova News site reported<\/a>, according to a translation.<\/p>\n

The leaders said their focus will turn to working with Milan, a host of the 2026 Winter Games<\/a>, and other parts of Italy \u201cto build a competitive Olympic dossier for the 2036 or 2040 Summer Olympic Games.\u201d<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s Winter Games were the first with a pair of hosts that included Cortina in addition to Milan. And while the 2026 Games sprawled across much of northern Italy<\/a>, the French Alps will be even more widespread.<\/p>\n

Not only is speedskating in 2030 expected to be more than 1,000 miles away from the site of other ice sports, Nice, another major sport is also moving. Paris is among the French cities vying<\/a> to be the 2030 ice hockey venue after Nice\u2019s mayor rejected plans to use a soccer stadium.<\/p>\n

Paris is where both the French Alps and Utah were awarded Winter Games<\/a> by the International Olympic Committee, ahead of the French capital\u2019s 2024 Summer Games. Utah\u2019s 2034 Winter Games<\/a>, however, will be among the most compact, reusing Olympic venues from 2002.<\/p>\n

\"\"Femke Kok of the Netherlands and Jenning de Boo of the Netherlands ride a lap of honor in a horse-pulled sled after winning the World Championships Sprint in Heerenveen, Netherlands, Sunday, March 8, 2026. | Patrick Post, Associated Press <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not all the competitions at the 2030 Winter Games will be held in France. Even before France\u2019s bid,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11125,5,354],"class_list":{"0":"post-14502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-2002-olympic-archive","9":"tag-france","10":"tag-olympics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}