Pro Norwegian Skier Nikolai Schirmer Delivers 20,000-Plus Climate Petition to IOC to “Ski Fossil Free” View this post on Instagram Sometimes the ski world actually moves the needle. This week, pro skier and filmmaker Nikolai Schirmer walked into Milan carrying more than just a symbolic gesture. In hand: over 20,000 signatures calling on the International Olympic Committee to rethink and publicly justify its continued ties to fossil fuel sponsorships. Related: Nikolai Shirmer’s New Film Isn’t […] Industry News Martin Kuprianowicz | February 6, 2026 0 Comments
International Olympic Committee Postpones Decision on 2030 Winter Olympics Host City The International Olympic Committee has announced that its decision on a host city for the 2030 Winter Olympics and Paralympics will be delayed until at least September 2023. Candidate cities: Salt Lake City; Sapporo, Japan; and Vancouver, Canada, all of which have previously hosted a Winter Games, will have to wait until next fall for a final decision. The postponement […] Industry News Nick DeRiso | September 13, 2022 1 Comment
Ski Mountaineering Proposed to Join Olympics as New Sport at 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Games The 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Milan-Cortina, Italy might be getting a new sport. Ski mountaineering has been proposed by the International Olympic Committee executive board as the eighth sport on the 2026 program in Milan-Cortina, the Olympic body said Friday. The sport will consist of skiing and hiking up and down steep mountain terrain. The plan is for five […] Industry News SnowBrains | June 21, 2021 0 Comments
IOC To Decide on Russia’s Participation at Pyeongchang in December The IOC has received calls from the worlds leading anti-doping agencies for Russia to be banned from competing in the Pyeongchang Games in February 2018.The outcry for Russia to be banned comes from agencies such as the US Anti-Doping Agency and UK Anti‑Doping. There is particular significance behind the outcry from the UK Anti-Doping agency as they took charge of Russia’s testing […] Industry News Caitlin Perry | November 2, 2017 0 Comments
Denver and Tahoe Amongst US Cities Preparing Bid for 2026 or 2030 Winter Olympics Having just been awarded the Summer Olympics in LA for 2028, the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) is priming a bid for the Winter Olympics in 2026 or 2030. The US last held a Winter Olympics in 2002 at Salt Lake City, who along with Denver, Reno-Tahoe and other cities have expressed an interest in bidding. Not since Germany, before […] Industry News Steven Agar | September 28, 2017 0 Comments
Denver and Salt Lake Eyeing 2026 Winter Olympics There is an outside shot that the U.S. could host two Olympic games within the next 11 years. Groups in both Salt Lake City and Denver are considering putting together bids for the 2026 Winter games, just two years before the 2028 Los Angeles Summer Olympics. With the IOC’s new emphasis on host cities that have existing infrastructure and the ability to […] Olympics Jake Rubnitz | September 14, 2017 1 Comment
Reno-Tahoe-Vegas 2030? Not As Crazy As It Sounds Northern Nevada and Tahoe are looking to put together a strong Olympic bid for 2030. In order to do that they are enlisting the help of Las Vegas. The Reno Tahoe Winter Games Coalition had been working for years to put together a bid for 2026, but with Los Angeles being awarded the 2024 games they are now focusing on 2030. […] Industry News Jake Rubnitz | August 10, 2017 2 Comments
NO Skiing Big Air for 2018 Winter Olympics | Big Air Snowboarding Approved The Los Angeles Times is reporting today that both Snowboarding Big Air & Skiing Big Air have been added to the 2018 Winter Games. We just discovered that this is not true. Skiing Big Air was proposed to the IOC for 2018, but was not approved. Snowboarding Big Air was approved. The IOC’s reason for not approving Skiing Big Air? Essentially, they are saying that Skiing Big Air isn’t entertaining enough… IOC Press Release […] Industry News SnowBrains | June 8, 2015 1 Comment
Why Nobody Wants to Host the 2022 Olympics Next summer, the IOC (International Olympic Committee) will have its election deciding which city will have the honor of hosting the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. It’ll come down to a narrow race between two host cities. Yet I may need to […] Michael Etezadi | January 8, 2015 14 Comments
IOC Says Number of Injuries in Olympic Slopestyle is “Unacceptable” Ski and snowboard slopestyle debuted for the first time in the Olympics this year in Sochi, Russia. The course was big and intimidating. So much so, that legendary snowboarder, Shaun White, pulled out of slopestyle just days before the competition. Maybe Shaun was right… The […] SnowBrains | April 16, 2014 5 Comments
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