What future for the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games? Global warming inevitably leads to asking the question. IOC presidential candidate Johan Eliasch gave his point of view in his interview with AIPS.. "For winter sports, climate change is potentially an existential threat, he warns. The planet was not designed for eight and a half billion people living the way we do, we have to accept that and act." The current president of the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) sees the idea of establishing a circle of host countries/cities, which would organize the Winter Games in turn, a lead to be exploited. "There is this concept of rotation and I believe in it, because we would then reduce the number of sites to some, that the FIs can support through World Cups and World Championships, so that we would not have no need to recreate sites"
The project had already been commented on in March 2024 by the governor of Utah, Spencer Cox. According to him, it is a question of "in the next few years, the IOC will make a decision to have a group of cities hosting the Olympic Games, so that every 20 years, maybe, or every 16 years, we were coming back to these host cities, and Salt Lake City was one of them."Johan Eliasch, born in Sweden, would like his native country to be part of it. "I really hope that Sweden may host the Winter Games at some point », he replies, while recalling that "there must be political will".
