PARIS – The 2030 Winter Olympics in the French Alps, already bedeviled by several senior executives quitting, faces another potential headache with the election of far-right politician Eric Ciotti as mayor of Nice.
As with the recent Milano Cortina Winter Olympics, the proposed venues for 2030 will stretch from the Alps to the southern Mediterranean city.
The new mayor, elected on Sunday, has no issue with Nice hosting the ice hockey, the figure skating, curling, short track skating and the closing ceremony, along with the Olympic Village, but he is opposed to where the venues have been allocated.
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