IOC leader happy with shrinking 2026 Winter Olympic contest
LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Despite two possible bidders dropping out in recent weeks, IOC President Thomas Bach says the Olympic body is satisfied with the 2026 Winter Games hosting race.
Austrian Olympic officials withdrew a project centred on Graz this month, and voters in Switzerland rejected Sion’s planned bid last month.
The International Olympic Committee is still in talks with five possible candidates: Turin and Milan in Italy; Stockholm; Erzurum, Turkey; Calgary, Canada; and Sapporo, Japan.
“We are pretty happy with the status of this candidature procedure,” Bach said on Friday at a news conference after a three-day executive board meeting