IOC votes to continue ski mountaineering for 2030 Games
- On Monday, the International Olympic Committee approved venue masterplan changes for the 2030 Winter Games in the French Alps, relocating ice sports to Lyon and selecting Thialf in the Netherlands for speed skating.
- These venue updates support a more compact Games footprint and enable significant cost efficiencies, while France lacks a speed skating venue, requiring IOC dispensation for the Dutch facility.
- On Thursday, the IOC ratified adding Skimo as an 'additional sport' for the 2030 Games. Karl Stoss, chair of the Olympic Programme Working Committee, cited the sport's 'youth appeal' and "recognised the sport's potential to add meaningful value to the programme."
- The Skimo program for 2030 includes men's and women's relays with a proposed quota of 72 athletes, potentially creating pressure for cuts elsewhere as the Nordic event faces scrutiny.
- Final decisions for the 2030 programme, including disciplines and athlete counts, will be determined later this summer as the IOC continues reviewing initiatives launched by President Kirsty Coventry.
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An important decision about the Winter Olympics 2030 in France has been made: ski mountaineering, which celebrated its premiere this year in Italy, remains in the programme. In addition, the domestic aces around the Carinthian overall World Cup second Paul Verbnjak can also look forward to a new discipline in the Olympic calendar.
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IOC votes to continue ski mountaineering for 2030 Games
The International Olympic Committee, meeting in an extraordinary session, on Thursday approved adding ski mountaineering, which made its Olympic debut in Milan-Cortina this year, to the 2030 Winter Games…
The organisation committee for the Winter 2030 Olympics is planning to severely degrade the mountain, and the forest areas, earthworks, artificializations, and ski lifts out of time.
There was only the procedure that the Executive Session of the International Olympic Committee will ratify the continuity of mountain skiing in the Olympic program after its debut at the Milan-Cortina Games. Once the Executive accepted the proposal of the Organizing Committee of the French Alps 2030, only the continuity of specialty remained officially sealed. Said and done. It was approved as an additional sport by majority.
Ski mountaineering, a sport that had made its first appearance at the Milan Cortina 2026 Olympic Games, will be on the sport programme of the 2030 Winter Games in the Alps. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) validated its re-registration on Thursday, June 25.
The 100 members of the International Olympic Committee, meeting in extraordinary session on Thursday, validated the re-enrolment of the Olympic ski-alpinism programme, the "additional sport" that had made its Olympic debut in Milan-Cortina.
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