Lyon Pitches 2030 Winter Games Ice Events

Overview

• Lyon’s mayor, Grégory Doucet, said Wednesday he is willing to host the Olympic ice sports in 2030 and asked Métropole president Véronique Sarselli to make a joint offer.
• The offer follows doubts in Nice where newly elected mayor Éric Ciotti rejects covering the Allianz Riviera soccer stadium and building a new ice complex, even as he says he wants to keep the events.
• The Paris 2030 organizing committee, known as COJOP, has studied a plan B that would shift the ice competitions to Lyon, according to press reports.
• Lyon points to two existing rinks and its role hosting the 2028 Ice Hockey World Championship, with venues such as Charlemagne, Baraban, Halle Tony Garnier, LDLC Arena, and Eurexpo cited as options.
• No venue change has been approved, and any switch would require new agreements between the co-host regions Provence–Alpes–Côte d’Azur and Auvergne–Rhône–Alpes, plus reworked plans for housing, media space, and club access to the Nice stadium.