Sweden‘s Olympic leaders are weighing up whether to bid for the Winter Games in 2030: the Nordic country’s potential entry into the race to stage the 2030 Games comes at a time when the ‘International Olympic Committee’ has delayed the process and is searching around for more contenders to host the event, beyond Japan (Sapporo), Salt Lake City and British Columbia. A joint Stockholm-Åre bid from Sweden lost out to another shared bid, from Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo in Italy, to stage the Winter Games in 2026 amid a lack of clear public support in Sweden: there was discontent in Stockholm over how the Swedish bid was treated in the contest for the 2026 Games. The Swedish Olympic and Paralympic Committees and the Swedish Sports Confederation will start a feasibility study for 2030, they said Wednesday: so far, all the arenas required to arrange the largest Winter Games are virtually available. Sweden hosted the Summer Olympics in 1912 but never a Winter Games, despite the country being an established winter sports nation: it has made eight failed bids to stage the Winter Games. The secretary general of the Swedish Olympic Committee, Gunilla Lindberg, is also an IOC member and on the panel tasked with finding potential future hosts for the Winter Games.
