Olympic winter sports leader upbeat about replacing Nice with Lyon for 2030 Games

Olympic winter sports’ top official at the IOC said Thursday they are ready to move ice-rink events to Lyon from Nice for the 2030 Winter Games. The persistently slippery path toward the French Alps Olympics saw organizers lose patience last week with Nice’s new far-right mayor Éric Ciotti, with a key dispute over using the city’s soccer stadium for ice hockey. Moving ice events north to Lyon, 300 kilometers (186 miles) closer to Paris than the palm tree-fringed Riviera city, “now appears t...

By GRAHAM DUNBAR