Lausanne: The IOC will wait until next June to decide whether to include new sports for the 2030 Winter Olympics in the French Alps, president Kirsty Coventry said yesterday.
“We are going to continue assessing all existing disciplines on the Olympic Winter Games programme, as well as with any potential new additional sports, and the decision will be done in June,” the Zimbabwean said.
The International Olympic Committee had initially considered announcing the list of sporting events selected for 2030 at its December 2025 meeting. But this decision runs up against the broad reflection process launched by Coventry since she replaced Germany’s Thomas Bach as IOC chief in June.
Coventry set up a working group on the Olympic sports programme, tasked with studying the possible inclusion in the Winter Games of disciplines such as trail running or cyclocross, which fall under international federations involved in the Summer Olympics.
International winter sports federations opposed such a move in November, arguing that the inclusion of these sports would “dilute the brand, heritage, and identity” of the Winter Olympics.
