"You know it's it's really hard but at the same time I know that the organization will bounce back," IOC Executive Director Christophe Dubi said amid mass resignations and a French Senate hearing

Eight cities wanted to bid for the 2026 Olympic Winter Games. Seven submitted applications to host the Games. Four cities withdrew from the race before the final vote.

Reporting from Main Press Center in Milan, Italy - Almaty in Kazakhstan will host the 10th Asian Winter Games in 2029, awarded the massive event after Saudi Arabia and the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) agreed to push The Kingdom's hosting of the event forward due to significant delays. Plans were for the Games to be staged at the yet-to-be-built Trojena ski resort in the new NEOM City The OCA announced a postponement of the Saudi Arabia plans last month but on Monday revealed that they had chosen Almaty as a replacement and Thursday held the signing ceremony of the Host City Contract in Milan ahead of the opening of the Milano Cortina Olympic Winter Games.

The Opening Ceremony ran simultaneously in four locations with the main proceedings held in Milan’s legendary 75,000 seat San Siro Olympic Stadium and over 400km away a second stage in Cortina d’Ampezzo. Athletes also joined the parade from Livigno and Predazzo.

On Wednesday the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said it is ready to begin targeted dialogue - a bid phase designed for building a final host contract and gaining official approval from IOC members - with Swiss Olympic by the end of this year. That would then virtually assure that the Games will go to Switzerland for the third time.

The Kingdom was awarded the NEOM 2029 event in 2022 when it promised to build a new ski resort in the desert, baffling critics who questioned the feasibility and sustainability of the grandiose project. Saudi Arabia was the only bidder in the race.

Officials claim that this would be the first-ever Olympics hosted by an entire country with 10 cantons and 14 municipalities directly involved in the organization

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The Games will be known as Amdavad 2030 using the locally used Gujarat language for the city name. India will host its second edition in twenty years following Delhi 2010.

Up to eight sports could be staged in the capital including athletics, handball, tennis, gymnastics, volleyball, track cycling and some preliminary basketball and football matches

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The controversial deal inked last year ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympics had come under scrutiny after the election of new IOC president Kirsty Coventry in June, who asked her membership to review all current processes and recommend changes

Hamburg has planned a referendum May 31 and Rhine-Ruhr residents could head to the ballot boxes on April 19. No vote is required in Berlin. The DOSB will finalize bid choices at its General Assembly in fall 2026.

IOC ended formal dialogue as Nusantara was to join bids from Ahmadabad in India, Doha in Qatar and North Jeolla Province in South Korea among others in the 2036 Olympics race. NOC's warned to exclude Indonesia from hosting events.

Ahmedabad was chosen over Abuja, Nigeria denying Africa its first-ever Commonwealth Games. India would host its second edition in twenty years following Delhi 2010. Election will be November 26 in Glasgow.

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The election of Rio de Janeiro-Niterói or Asunción, Paraguay will take place with 42 voting member nations on Friday, October 10 at 10:00am local time in Santiago, Chile

Doha has joined Ahmedabad in India as those nations that have formalized campaigns

Asunción, Paraguay will face a joint Rio de Janeiro-Niterói bid from Brazil when Panam Sports elects a host with its 41 member nations October 10.

Germany continues to move forward after last year narrowing its field of host candidates to Berlin, Munich, Hamburg and the Rhine-Ruhr region. Final decision expected next year.

The resumption of the payments - a form of revenue sharing from the IOC's sponsorship and broadcast contracts that are distributed to National Olympic Committees (NOC) and International Sport Federations (IF) - is critical not only to support athletes in India, but also as an indication of renewed confidence in the IOA as it pursues its bid to host the 2036 Olympics in Ahmedabad

As had been expected, Abuja in Nigeria and Ahmadabad in India were the only two bidders to meet Commonwealth Sport's August 31 document deadline to remain in contention to host the centennial edition of the Commonwealth Games in 2030

Abuja in Nigeria and Ahmedabad in India seem to be the only two bids on track to meet Commonwealth Sport's 2030 Games bid application deadline. Both have sent high level delegations to CGF headquarters in London.

"We can’t just tell whether Ahmedabad is the host city. We have good facilities in Bhubaneswar and even in Delhi also,” IOA President PT Usha said.