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GamesBids.com Top Ten: Olympic Bid Stories of 2024 and More

GamesBids.com presents the seventeenth annual Top Ten list of Olympic Bid Stories for 2024. Warning: surprises ahead!

December 30, 2024
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July 26, 2024 (Anil Mungal/GamesBids.com) Final torchbearers at Paris 2024 Olympic Games cauldron at Jardins des Tuileries in Paris, July 26, 2024 (Anil Mungal/GamesBids.com)

Swiss government lends critical support to ‘privileged’ 2038 Winter Olympics bid with possible referendums on horizon

Swiss Olympic to revise plans targeting a 2038 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games bid and enter 'privileged dialogue' with IOC (Swiss Olympic Photo)

Salt Lake City confirmed host of 2034 Olympic Winter Games amid criticism of U.S. anti-doping interference

Salt Lake City-Utah 2034 President Fraser Bullock presents Winter Olympics bid plans to IOC members at the 142nd IOC Session in Paris July 24, 2024 (IOC media screen capture)

French Alps 2030 conditionally elected to host Olympic Winter Games

The election is conditional on the reception of required signed guarantees be a deadline to be set by the IOC…

July 24, 2024
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French President Emmanuel Macron addresses 142nd IOC Session in Paris, France supporting French Alps 2030 Olympic Winter Games bid, July 24, 2024 (IOC media screen capture)

With time running out to produce guarantees, will French Alps 2030 Winter Games bid be saved by President Macron’s promise?

The deadline in Wednesday morning. The Prime Minister has no capacity to sign the required document that is not considered…

July 23, 2024
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Martin Fourcade, five-time Olympic biathlon champion, has thrown his support behind the French Alps 2030 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (Photo: CNOFS)

IOC President on French Alps 2030 Winter Olympics bid: “without guarantees we cannot make an unconditional decision”

IOC president Thomas Bach said there are many possible scenarios, but with only six days remaining "we have to wait."

July 18, 2024
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IOC President Thomas Bach makes opening remarks at the Olympic AI Agenda Launch April 19, 2024 (Photo: IOC/Greg Martin)

Opponents of French Alps 2030 Winter Olympics plan bicycle ride to Lausanne to topple teetering bid

With an interim Prime Minister and a chaotic government in search of a coalition, who can sign the required Games…

July 15, 2024
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  • Opponents of French Alps 2030 Winter Olympics plan bicycle ride to Lausanne to topple teetering bid
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Protesters representing NO JO demonstrate in Briançon during the IOC inspection of French Alps 2030 Winter Olympics bid. Banners read "Olympic Games=Death to Mountains" and "Your Olympic Games - Our Debt" (Photo: NO JO Facebook)

Election results put French Alps 2030 Winter Olympics at Risk. What happens next?

Even if a new coalition forms quickly among several options, there is no certainty that the new government will support…

July 11, 2024
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(Left to right) IOC Future Host Commission Chair Karl Stoss, CNOSF President David Lappartient and CPSF President Marie-Amélie Le Fur at press conference following French Alps 2030 Winter Olympic bid technical visit April 26, 2024 (CNOSF video screen capture)

What to expect as strong delegation planned for final pitch to secure 2034 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City

The July 24 30-minute presentation to over 100 International Olympic Committee (IOC) members convening at the 142nd IOC Session at…

July 9, 2024
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The Olympic Rings outside Rice Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City, Utah (GamesBids Photo)

IOC in “very good dialogue” with Switzerland for 2038 Winter Olympics bid; targeted dialogue could begin in 2025

Switzerland is in 'privileged dialogue' with the IOC and have been given an exclusive window until 2027 to secure hosting…

June 13, 2024
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IOC Future Host Commission Chair Karl Stoss speaks to media at Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City, Utah April 10, 2024 (GamesBids Photo)

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