Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee attends a news conference after an Executive Board meeting in Lausanne May 22, 2019. — Reuters pic
On the road to the 2026 decision, bids from Calgary, Graz in Austria, Japan’s Sapporo and Sion in Switzerland have fallen by the wayside, mainly because of concerns over the cost or a lack of popular support.The bid by Stockholm and the Are ski area — which hosted the World Ski Championships in February — appeared to be running out of steam a few months ago due to a lack of funding commitments, but the government has now swung behind it.
“Sweden deserves the Games—Norway has had them twice, so it would be fair for Sweden to have them,” he said, adding, in a veiled jibe at Italy’s economic slowdown, that his country was “economically and politically stable”.
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