Alpes 2030 – Winter

The Olympics will take place February 1-17, 2030.

The 2030 Winter Paralympics will take place March 1-10, 2030.

The Olympic program will include:

• Alpine skiing
• Biathlon
• Bobsled
• Cross-country skiing
• Curling
• Figure skating – synchro9 is a new addition
• Freestyle skiing
• Freeride ski & snowboard
• Ice hockey
• Luge
• Short track speed skating
• Skeleton
• Ski jumping
• Ski mountaineering
• Snowboard
• Speed skating

After the success of ski mountaineering at Milano Cortina 2026, Alpes 2030 requested to keep this sport on the program, and the International Olympic Committee approved the request.

For the first time in Winter Olympic history, Nordic combined will not be contested at the Games. It has been removed from the program.

The Paralympic program will include:

• Para Alpine skiing
• Para biathlon
• Para cross-country skiing
• Para ice hockey
• Para snowboard
• Wheelchair curling

No new sports are slated for this edition of the Paralympics.

Alpes 2030 has added a number of new disciplines and events to the Winter Olympic Program. We’re going to see a lot of new, exciting events in this edition! Here are the changes:

• Alpine skiing
• Biathlon
  • NEW: Mixed singles relay
• Bobsled
• Cross-country skiing
• Curling
• Figure skating
  • NEW: synchro9 
• Freestyle skiing
  • NEW: Mixed team ski cross
• NEW: Freeride ski & snowboard
  • NEW: Men’s freeride ski
  • NEW: Men’s freeride snowboard
  • NEW: Women’s freeride ski
  • NEW: Women’s freeride snowboard
• Ice hockey
• Luge
• Short track speed skating
• Skeleton
• Ski jumping
  • NEW: Women’s super team
• Ski mountaineering
  • NEW: Men’s individual
  • NEW: Women’s individual
• Snowboard
  • NEW: Mixed team snowboard parallel
• Speed skating
  • NEW: Men’s team sprint
  • NEW: Women’s team sprint

OLYMPICS

The 2030 Winter Olympics is built around four venue clusters, and one additional city.

In September 2026, the venue plan was finalized. Olympic venues will be in Lyon and three other clusters in the French Alpes, and speed skating will be in Heerenveen, Netherlands.

Source: French Alpes 2030

LYON METROPOLIS CLUSTER

• Curling – Eurexpo Convention Center
• Ice hockey – Décines-Charpieu arena and Hall Tony Garnier
• Figure skating – Eurexpo Convention Center
• Short track speed skating – Eurexpo Convention Center

HAUTE-SAVOIE CLUSTER

LE GRAND-BORNAND

• Biathlon

LA CLUSAZ

• Cross-country skiing

SAVOIE CLUSTER

LA PLAGNE

• Bobsled
• Luge
• Skeleton

COURCHEVEL

• Alpine skiing – speed events
• Nordic combined
• Ski jumping

VAL D’ISÈRE

• Alpine skiing – technical events

BRIANÇON CLUSTER

SERRE-CHEVALIER

• Freestyle skiing
• Snowboard

MONTGENÈVRE

• Freestyle skiing
• Ski mountaineering
• Snowboard

HEERENVEEN, NETHERLANDS

• Speed skating – Thialf Stadium

PARALYMPICS

The 2030 Paralympics will take place completely in France, and the sports will be spread across three clusters.

Source: French Alpes 2030

LYON METROPOLIS CLUSTER

• Para ice hockey
• Wheelchair curling

Both sports will be located at Parc des Expositions, Chassieu.

HAUTE-SAVOIE CLUSTER

LA CLUSAZ

• Para biathlon
• Para cross-country skiing

SAVOIE CLUSTER

COURCHEVEL

• Para Alpine skiing
• Para snowboard

Seemingly, every Olympics seems to have its own Tahiti, right?

France doesn’t have a standard 400m speed skating oval that’s suitable for Olympic competition. Rather than build an entirely new venue, or even build a temporary rink link Milano Cortina 2026 did, Alpes 2030 decided to find a location in another country. They chose the hotbed of speed skating: The Netherlands.

Speed skating will be in Heerenveen, at Thialf Stadium. According to Google Maps, it’s located about 1000km away from Lyon, and would be a 10-hour (or so) drive, or 8+ hours by train. 

This will be the first time a Winter Olympics has been held in two countries. 

Are you excited about seeing Alpes 2030 events in person? Tickets will go on sale at the end of 2028. 

As of July 2026, no details on the process have been announced, but based on the last few Olympics and Paralympics, we can likely expect:

• Digital tickets
• A lottery process
• Some sort of resale platform

We’ll update this page as we get more information!

The Olympics and Paralympics are the largest and third-largest sporting events in the world, and they can’t go off without thousands of volunteers from around the world.

As of July 2026, the volunteer application process has not yet started, but we’ll update this page as information becomes available!

Various broadcast companies around the world have acquired media rights for French Alps 2030. 

Africa

The following countries will be covered by Marketing & Media Solutions: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Togo, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe

We’ll produce daily episodes during the Games. We’ll record at the end of the competition day and drop them as soon as possible after recording. All episodes will include results for every event on that day’s schedule, along with our popular feature “What officiating or volunteer job do we want to do?” and other talk that will be special to the 2030 Games.