2030 Winter Olympics: IOC official says work on French Alps event is 'behind schedule'

Skiers on ski jumps slopes, ahead of the French Alps 2030 Winter Olympic Games, at the Courchevel Olympic ski jump site, on January 30, 2026. ALEX MARTIN / AFP

The embattled organising team for the 2030 Winter Olympics in the French Alps needs to speed up work and pull together, the senior Olympic official overseeing the preparations said on Tuesday, February 3.

Pierre-Olivier Beckers, the head of the International Olympic Committee's coordination commission for the 2030 Games, said at an IOC Session ahead of the Milan-Cortina Winter Games that preparations were "behind schedule."

Beckers, a Belgian aristocrat, conceded that the French team had a shorter preparation time than in other Winter Olympics, having only begun work in 2024, when President Emmanuel Macron guaranteed the French state's financial backing, but he warned that rapid progress was required.

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