{"id":418144,"date":"2026-06-23T12:46:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T12:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/?p=418144"},"modified":"2026-06-23T12:46:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T12:46:36","slug":"speed-skating-moves-to-netherlands-lyon-to-host-ice-sports-in-2030-winter-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/speed-skating-moves-to-netherlands-lyon-to-host-ice-sports-in-2030-winter-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Speed skating moves to Netherlands, Lyon to host ice sports in 2030 Winter Games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">June 23 : Speed skating is set for a move to the Netherlands in the 2030 Winter Olympics, after the IOC&#8217;s executive board approved a venue plan for the Games to be hosted in the French Alps, with several ice sports also moving from Nice to Lyon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 The Thialf ice arena in Heerenveen, the Netherlands, has been proposed as the speed skating venue at the 2030 Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 Organisers wanted a speed skating venue outside France &#8220;given the absence of an existing one in the host country,&#8221; the IOC said on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 Curling, figure skating, ice hockey and short track are being moved from Nice to Lyon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 &#8220;This evolution supports a more compact overall Games footprint and enables significant cost efficiencies,&#8221; the governing body added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 Nice had originally been designated as the Games\u2019 southern \u201cice sports hub\u201d under the French Alps bid, grouping all indoor events in a major coastal city despite a need to build or adapt venues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 23 : Speed skating is set for a move to the Netherlands in the 2030 Winter Olympics, after the IOC&#8217;s executive board approved a venue plan for the Games to be hosted in the French Alps, with several ice sports also moving from Nice to Lyon. \u2022 The Thialf ice arena in Heerenveen, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12903],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12903"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418145,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418144\/revisions\/418145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}