With the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics coming to an end on Sunday evening, the French Alps will take the banner as host of the top global snow and ice sports competition in 2030. In an interview with CGTN Sports Scene's Greg Laffradi, Edgar Grospiron, president of the 2030 Winter Games Organizing Committee, shared his vision for the next edition.

The former Winter Olympics men's moguls skiing gold medalist offered two reasons why the French Alps will serve as a great location for the Games – a magnificent range of mountains and the legacy of Paris 2024.

Like Milano Cortina 2026, French Alps 2030 will also be a geographically-dispersed competition. Grospiron praised Italy's work in organizing this edition, while revealing part of the format for the next model.

"For us in the French Alps, it will start in Nice, which is a beautiful city on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea, on the French Riviera," the 56-year-old said. "And we go up to the Mont Blanc Massif, so it will be spread out across the whole range of the Alps in France. And we will have the possibility to show the diversity of this range of mountains with different types of ski resorts."

Grospiron also plans to use existing venues to meet sustainability and budget goals. For example, several facilities from the 1992 Albertville Winter Olympics will be reused.

"Sustainability is one of the most important issues that we address, with the budget also, and those must be in favor," the Organizing Committee chief noted. "Yes, sustainability is to reuse some of the facilities that were built for the 1992 Olympic Games."

In December 2025, the International Olympic Committee coordination commission paid its first visit to the site of the 2030 Winter Games. According to Grospiron, the trip was a great success.

The traditional eight-minute segment introducing the next host site will once again be presented during the Milano Cortina 2026 closing ceremony, before the Olympic flag is handed over to French Alps 2030. Another ceremony will take place in Albertville one day later.

"We have the handover ceremony during the closing ceremony," Grospiron said. "And yeah, we have a message we want to show, a glimpse of what could be the Games in 2030. And the next day in Albertville, will be the French delegation and also the Olympic flag that will return to France. And so we're happy to share that with a French audience."