When are the next Winter Olympics? What to know about the 2030 French Alps Games
With the 2026 Milan Cortina Games coming to a conclusion, it’s time to look ahead to the next Winter Olympics.Prior to this year’s Milan Cortina dual location, the last time Europe hosted the Winter Games was in 2006 — also in Italy. That year, it was Turin that served as the primary location.In four years time, the attention will stay in Europe once again, but the Winter Games are moving northwest to a border country.Here’s everything to know for the 2030 Winter Olympics:2026 Milan Cortina OlympicsJan 13How will climate change reshape Winter Olympics? List of possible host sites shrinkingOlympicsJan 11How Olympians think about success and failure and what we can learn from themOlympicsSep 17, 2025Opponents of 2030 Winter Olympics in French Alps launch legal actionWhen are the next Winter Olympics?The Olympics are organized every four years, so the next Winter Games will take place in 2030. The Opening Ceremony is set for Feb. 1, with the Closing Ceremony on Feb. 17.Where will the next Winter Olympics be?The 2030 Olympics will be hosted in the French Alps. The games will officially be known as the 2030 French Alps Olympics or French Alps 2030. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) nominated the French Alps as its preferred candidate on Nov. 29, 2023, then approved the bid during the 142nd IOC Session in Paris on July 24, 2024.Where are the French Alps?The French Alps are a portion of the Alps mountain range that stand within France in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur regions. The Alps also extends to Italy and Switzerland.Which venues will be used at the 2030 French Alps Olympics?While the location for the Opening Ceremony has not been announced, the Closing Ceremony is planned for the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, a famous and public coastline walk. Such a location and style for the ceremony would be an Olympic first, though similar to the 2024 Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony where athletes were introduced on boats along the Seine.Here are other known venues thus far in specific city clusters, with more to be determined:Nice clusterStade de Nice: Ice hockeyPalais Nikaia: CurlingPromenade des Anglais: Closing CeremonyBriançon clusterSerre Chevalier: Freestyle skiing and snowboardingMontgenèvre: Freestyle skiing and snowboardingSavoie clusterLa Plagne: Bobsled, luge and skeletonCourchevel: Alpine skiing, ski jumping, Nordic combinedVal-d’Isère: Alpine skiingHaute-Savoie clusterLa Clusaz: Cross-country skiingLe Grand-Bornand: BiathlonPrevious Winter Olympics in FranceThe 2030 Games will not be the first time France has hosted for winter sports. The nation hosted the first ever Winter Olympics in 1924. Here’s the list, with each city along the French Alps region:1924 Winter Olympics: Chamonix1968 Winter Olympics: Grenoble1992 Winter Olympics: AlbertvilleThe Olympic cauldron of the 1992 Albertville Winter Games is pictured prior to a ceremony organised to mark the arrival of the Olympic rings ahead of the French Alps 2030 Winter Olympic Games at the Courchevel Olympic ski jump site, on January 30, 2026. (Photo by Alex MARTIN / AFP via Getty Images)France also hosted the Summer Olympics in 1900, 1924 (when both the Summer and Winter Olympics transpired the same year) and, most recently, 2024.Who will broadcast the 2030 French Alps Olympics?NBC will once again be the broadcasting home for the Winter Olympics in 2030, as television and streaming rights in the U.S. will remain with NBCUniversal’s platforms.In France, Warner Bros. Discovery via Eurosport has the paid television and streaming rights. Free-to-air coverage rights are owned by France Télévisions.Future Winter Olympics locationsBeyond 2030, only the 2034 Winter Olympics have a confirmed host: Salt Lake City, Utah.
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