Matignon provides the IOC with the financial guarantee of the State, the last condition for the definitive attribution of the Games to the French Alps

All that was missing was the State’s agreement to formalize the award of the 2030 Olympic Games to the French Alps.

France will host the Olympic Games for the second time in six years. In a letter addressed Wednesday October 2 to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), thePrime Minister Michel Barnier provided the financial guarantee from the State, necessary to formalize the award of the 2030 Winter Games to the French Alps.

“I confirm that I undertake to guarantee the financing of any possible budgetary deficit of the organizing committee of the Olympic Games”wrote the tenant of Matignon in a letter addressed to the president of the IOC, Thomas Bach, and published on , former president of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.

This will therefore be the fourth time that France has hosted the Winter Games, once again in the Alps, after Chamonix in 1924, Grenoble in 1968 and Albertville in 1992. On July 24, the IOC awarded these Winter Olympics to the French Alps, subject to providing financial guarantees from the State and regions. Due to the dissolution of the National Assembly and the legislative elections which followed, the financial guarantee from the State, necessary to complete the file with the IOC, had not yet been provided by the government.