St Lucia's Richard Peterkin believes a double award of the 2026 and 2030 Winter Games is "possible" after Innsbruck's bid was ended following a referendum defeat yesterday.

claimed the IOC may now look to award the 2026 and 2030 Games together, as they did for the 2024 and 2028

editions of the Summer Games, given to Paris and Los Angeles respectively."

Innsbruck's bid for the 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games is over after Tyrol voted against the Austrian city's candidature during a crucial referendum today.

process, which ultimately concluded with the double award of the Olympic Games to Paris in 2024 and Los

Angeles in 2028.Only Almaty and Beijing bid for the 2022 Games after Stockholm, Lviv, Kraków and Oslo

2026 or 2030.Although admitting 2030 would be the more ideal choice in order to avoid a conflict with Los

Angeles 2028, Probst said the USOC would "want to be in that conversation, at the table for that discussion

A Sunday in Paris, last month. All morning, and for most of the afternoon, members of the World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) Executive Committee have sat ten floors up in the Pullman Tour Eiffel Hotel with the iconic French construction looming huge in their picture-window.

With the announcement of Los Angeles 2028, our challenge now is to work with our national federation

Larry Probst claiming it would "ideally" be the latter edition to avoid any potential conflict with Los

Angeles 2028.

Games.Probst also hinted the IOC might look at another double award, as was the case with Paris 2024 and Los

Angeles 2028.If the IOC did go down that route, Probst said the USOC would "want to be in that conversation

 "Ideally that’s probably 2030 so there is no confusion with the preparations for 2028."

Los Angeles 2028 chairman Casey Wasserman claimed that a US attempt to host the 2026 Winter Olympic and

Angeles due to host the Summer Games two years later.The IOC officially opened the candidature process

Unsuccessful French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF) Presidential candidate Isabelle Lamour has reportedly changed her mind and filed an appeal against the result of the May vote at which Denis Masseglia was re-elected.

Paris' bidding team in the Peruvian capital, even if the result there was a formality due to sole rival Los

Angeles having shifted their focus to the subsequent edition in 2028.He has not yet commented following

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach visited the University of St Gallen in Switzerland for a public panel discussion with Matthias Hüppi, the moderator and commentator at Swiss television channel SRF.

month was "very successful" in its double allocation of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2024 and 2028

to Paris and Los Angeles respectively.

The partial suspension of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Olympic Analytical Laboratory

director general Olivier Niggli said.The UCLA is due to be the site of the Athletes' Village at the 2028

Olympics and Paralympics in Los Angeles ©Getty Images"We commend the UCLA Laboratory for their quick

Founded in 1982 after a grant from the Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Organising Committee, the UCLA facility

Angeles 1984, Atlanta 1996 and Salt Lake City 2002 - three American editions of the Olympic Games.UCLA

is due to be the site of the Athletes' Village at the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Los Angeles

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) have opened the candidature process for the 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, with the organisation inviting cities to express their interest.

process, which ultimately concluded with the double award of the Olympic Games to Paris in 2024 and Los

Angeles in 2028.Only Almaty and Beijing bid for the 2022 Games after Stockholm, Lviv, Kraków and Oslo

Los Angeles 2028 chairman Casey Wasserman has claimed that a United States attempt to host the 2026 Winter

The historic decision to officially award the 2024 and 2028 Summer Games to Paris and Los Angeles at

same time was made on September 13 at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session in Lima.Los Angeles

Olympic Committee (USOC) media summit in Park City in Utah, claimed that talks must be held between Los

Angeles and any prospective US 2026 bidder.Park City is a winter-sport hub in the US and hosted events

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has provisionally suspended the accreditation of the Paris laboratory.

France victories.Paris was awarded the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics at the same time American city Los

Angeles was given the 2028 Games.The laboratory in the Californian city was also "partially suspended

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has been welcomed to Marseille by French President Emmanuel Macron and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, following the award of the 2024 Olympic Games last week.

competition during the 2024 Olympic Games ©Paris 2024The decision to officially award the 2024 and 2028

Olympic and Paralympic Games to Paris and Los Angeles was made last week in Lima.It came after the IOC

visiting France for the first time since the award of the Games, having held a similar two-day visit to Los

Angeles.He had flown directly to Los Angeles from Lima, before heading to New York City to attend the

Thomas Bach has finished a two-day visit to Los Angeles to help them celebrate being awarded the 2028

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) President completed his trip by appearing alongside Los Angeles

Angeles 2028 chairman Casey Wasserman at the National Football League match between LA Rams against

Washington Rams at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.There, before the match started, he lit the Olympic

Angeles 1984.

 IOC President Thomas Bach joined Rafer Johnson to light the Olympic cauldron at the Los Angeles

Paris 2024 have held a celebration in front of their City Hall to mark the French capital being awarded the rights to the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The decision to officially award the 2024 and 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games to Paris and Los Angeles

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has led the “Celebrate '28” parade through the Californian city as organisers

continue to mark being awarded the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The parade took place during the Los Angeles County Fair and began its circuit at the Millard Sheets

of the Los Angeles 2028 team and the Los Angeles 84 Foundation also participated.The foundation

to CBS Los Angeles."

The parade took place during the Los Angeles County Fair ©Eric Garcetti/TwitterThe historic decision

to officially award the 2024 and 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games to Paris and Los Angeles was made

It was extremely telling that a media round table with organisers of the Lima 2019 Pan American Games was held during the four hour long “half-time” update on the progress of the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Agenda 2020 reforms.

journalists left at the IOC Session, following the departure of many after the award of the Paris 2024 and Los

Angeles 2028, seemed to believe they would not miss out on any breaking developments during the update

Session about how Agenda 2020 had helped them do various things.Patrick Baumann, who chaired the 2024 and 2028

all be linked to Agenda 2020 in some way, apparently.A personal favourite in the platitudes came from Los

Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who said in a video that "Olympic Agenda 2020 felt so comfortable for us