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The Future of the Olympic Winter Games in a Warming Climate “With no time to waste, the IOC is working to identify climate-reliable and infrastructure ready Games locations to ensure that the world’s top skiers, snowboarders, biathletes and sliders can compete in optimal conditions in the decades to come.” “The IOC is also considering other measures to protect the Olympic Winter Games: “creation of a decentralised hosting model to reduce the costs of the Games”, “a dual allocation of the 2030 and 2034 editions,” (France and Salt Lake City) “rotation of the Games among a permanent pool of hosts.” Credit: Olympics.com - 22 Dec 2023 In addition, a pathway for Switzerland to the 2038 Games recently created in a new time-limited ‘Priveliged Dialogue’ phase. In effect, we know the likely next four hosts of the Olympic Winter Games starting with Milano Cortina 2026. But what is this “decentralised hosting model” that the IOC speaks of ??