To celebrate Olympic Day on 23rd June 2024 and the centenary of the first Winter Olympics, the Torch Relay lit up Haute-Savoie. The first Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc in 1924, so it was a fitting tribute to return 100 years later with the Torch.

Following a recommendation from the Commission on Future Olympic Winter Games Host Cities, the Executive Board of the IOC has proposed that Salt Lake City - Utah 2034 (SLC-UT 2034) be put up for election at the IOC Session in Paris on 22-24 July. It also proposed the French Alps for the 2030 Winter Games.

Utah’s bid to bring the Winter Olympics back to Salt Lake City takes another step forward, as the Salt Lake City-Utah Committee for the Games released its budget on Monday to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as part of their response to the Future Host Questionnaire. The organisers projected that hosting the 2034 Winter Games in Utah would cost nearly $4 billion (€3.7 billion), including $2.83 billion (€2.6 billion) for core operations and promised no state or local public funding will be used to fund the Games.

USADA has declared that skiing star Breezy Johnson has agreed to a 14-month suspension for accumulating three Whereabouts Failures within a year.

As the days go by, it's becoming clear that the impression left on the visitors from the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Future Hosts Commission after their tour of 13 sites last April was a very positive one, further boosting the prospects of Utah hosting the Winter Games for the second time this century.

From global warming and its impact on the Winter and Summer Games to artificial intelligence and e-sports, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is thinking ahead.

Salt Lake City has welcomed top officials from the International Olympic Committee to explore potential sites for the 2034 Winter Olympic Games.

Austria, Slovenia and Italy are considering a joint bid to host the Winter Olympics after 2034, according to the President of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region in northern Italy, Massimiliano Fedriga.

Disagreement continues between the Italian government, which has signed the contract for the construction of the bobsleigh track, and the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which has reiterated its opposition and called for a Plan B to be considered.

The Azerbaijan Winter Sports Federation and the Shahdag Tourism Centre, with the support of the Japanese Embassy in Azerbaijan, organised a master class in mogul freestyle skiing.

Just two years to go before the start of the 25th Olympic Winter Games in Milano-Cortina in northern Italy, a construction company has responded to the public tender to build the track that has sparked controversy and back-and-forth.

Global warming affects every aspect of life, including sport and top-level athletics. The problem is getting worse every year, and unless there is a 180-degree turn in the policies of the IOC and politicians in general, the Gangwon Youth Games in 2024 or the Milano-Cortina Games in 2026 will be remembered as the last in the current format.

Switzerland's project to host the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in 2030 or 2034 has received a major boost with all of the country's sports federations voting in favour of the bid, confirming a shared ambition to move on to the next stage with the International Olympic Committee (IOC), known as the 'targeted dialogue' phase.

Every effort should be made to keep the sliding sports in Italy when Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo host the 2026 Winter Olympic Games, the country’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani has claimed.

French sporting goods firm Salomon has signed up as a premium partner of the 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo.