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The mayors of Vancouver and Whistler and the British Columbia Minister of Sports are expected to meet with International Olympic Committee inspectors who will visit potential venues for the 2030 Winter Olympics.
A trio of IOC technical experts made a stopover in the host city of Salt Lake City in 2002 last week and is now in Vancouver until the end of this week. . He refuses to identify the trio and will not comment on the route.
“The IOC does not publish the timetable or the list of participants in these services,” said a list through the IOC headquarters in Switzerland. “The IOC respects the confidentiality of every prospective host as it works to expand the public and personal dimensions. of your project. Each stakeholder is on the loose to speak to the national and regional media when they feel the time is right. “
None of the members of the IOC’s long-term Host Commission, which will eventually present a host by 2030 to the IOC Executive Board, is on the journey. The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) has not yet responded for comment.
“I have no plans to meet with the IOC technical team this week,” Said Mayor Jack Crompton. “I hope the city will meet me with them. I don’t have any main points about those meetings. “
“The mayor is not scheduled to meet with the IOC for the technical visit. To my knowledge, no one in the city would either,” said Alvin Singh, a spokesman for Mayor Kennedy Stewart.
Corinna Filion, Director of Communications for Melanie Mark, Minister of Tourism, Arts, Culture and Sport, said: “Nobody knows them.
Richmond City Council spokesman Clay Adams said the IOC delegation will arrive at the Richmond Olympic Oval, but said he did not know when.
The IOC replaced costly bidding wars with a new procedure to inspire interested cities to negotiate behind closed doors through “continuous dialogue. “The 2030 host is expected to be selected no later than the May 2023 IOC consultation in Mumbai, India.
The Vancouver 2030 concept was unveiled by former Vancouver 2010 CEO John Furlong at a Greater Vancouver Board of Trade breakfast in 2020 that celebrated the tenth anniversary of the Games. He advised that most festival venues built for 2010 can only be renovated and reused. as well as other places elsewhere in British Columbia.
Last December, Stewart, Crompton and the leaders of the 4 host First Nations of the 2010 Games (Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Lil’wat) signed a memorandum of understanding to explore an offer. In February, the COC announced its feasibility study.
Vancouver County Colleen Hardwick has proposed a plebiscite on the candidacy for the October municipal elections, in part due to the pending mystery of the actual Vancouver 2010 prices; The minutes of the Board of Directors of the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Organizing Committee (VANOC) and the City of Vancouver’s financial records will not be available to the public until fall 2025.
No one else on the City Council supported his move at the April 12 meeting. A day earlier, Stewart had said there could be a “community vote or other commitments to residents” after a feasibility study was completed in June.
In addition to Vancouver and Salt Lake City, two others are exploring 2030: the winter 1972 host, Sapporo, and a Spanish, French and Andorran bid led by the summer 1992 host, Barcelona.
Salt Lake City is the aggressive maxim. It was more than a year ahead of Vancouver and has the National Olympic Committee and the state.
A month after the Calgary electorate rejected a 2026 bid in November 2018, the U. S. Olympic Committee has rejected a bid for 2026. The U. S. Geological Security has chosen Salt Lake City as a candidate for the 2030 or 2034 Winter Games. Last spring, the Salt Lake City-Utah Games Committee said it had already raised $1. 5 million for a $3. 8 million bid budget. Utah has already estimated that it would charge $2. 2 billion to host the 2030 Games.
On April 29, Salt Lake City’s Deseret News reported that the Executive Director of the Nominating Committee, Fraser Bullock, was very happy with the IOC’s visit: “This is precisely what we hoped to get from the IOC: a partnership [and] a wonderful contribution. “
Bullock, Chief Operating Officer of Salt Lake 2002 and member of the IOC Coordination Commission that oversaw Vancouver 2010.
“I keep my hands crossed by 2030, but every time we’re asked to organize them, we’ll be ready,” Bullock told the newspaper.
Los Angeles will host the 2028 Summer Games, the first in the United States since Atlanta in 1996. NBC’s TV deal with the IOC is the biggest source of profit and the 2030 Winter Games are the last under its existing 2021-2032 contract, $7. 65 billion.
Meanwhile, the COC registered with the British Columbia government lobby. Calla Strategies’ Mary Conibear requests, on behalf of her client, that the provincial government dedicate resources to collaborate on the conceptual plan for the Games.
“If a Games concept were to become a successful offering, it could have an effect on a number of government policies, adding indigenous relations, environment, housing, economic progress and others,” Conibear’s board said on April 28.
Conibear, General Manager of Gaming Operations for VANOC. Last year, it contracted under a no-bid contract from the Ministry of Health to help organize vaccination clinics in British Columbia. Vaccine czar Penny Ballem, former director of VANOC.
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