A senior producer and award-winning journalist covering Olympic bid business as founder of GamesBids.com as well as providing freelance support for print and Web publications around the world. Robert Livingstone is a member of the Olympic Journalists Association and the International Society of Olympic Historians.

Swiss 2038 Olympic Winter Games bid releases decentralized venue plan with opening ceremony in IOC capital Lausanne – price tag set at 2.2 billion Swiss francs

Officials claim that this would be the first-ever Olympics hosted by an entire country with 10 cantons and 14 municipalities…

January 12, 2026

Three cities – Asunción, Bangkok and Santiago – in the running to host Youth Olympic Games in 2030 with an election planned for June

The three cities were accepted into the IOC's targeted dialogue phase of the bid process as preferred hosts after successfully…

December 10, 2025