IOC Official Optimistic About Moving 2030 Winter Games Ice Events to Lyon from Nice

Olympic winter sports leader upbeat about replacing Nice with Lyon for 2030 Games

Olympic winter sports’ top official at the IOC said Thursday they are ready to move ice-rink events to Lyon from Nice for the 2030 Winter Games. The persistently slippery path toward the French Alps Olympics saw organizers lose patience last week with Nice’s new far-right mayor Éric Ciotti, with a key dispute over using the city’s soccer stadium for ice hockey. Moving ice events north to Lyon, 300 kilometers (186 miles) closer to Paris than the palm tree-fringed Riviera city, “now appears t...

By GRAHAM DUNBAR