SAPPORO--Sapporo Mayor Katsuhiro Akimoto announced on Dec. 19 that the city would suspend its bid to host the Winter Olympics as it will be unlikely to host the Games for the next 18 years.

Sapporo’s bid for the 2030 Winter Olympics has been slowed--but not stopped--by fallout from the still-developing corruption scandal around the 2020 Tokyo Games. The pursuit could resume if ...

TASS/. The representatives of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Japanese officials may have conducted unofficial consultations to hold the 2030 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, the Kyodo ...

Sapporo is the capital city of Hokkaido and the fifth-largest city in the country. As Japan’s most northern island, Hokkaido ...

Igaya and Konno said they would like to witness the Winter Olympics return to Sapporo, whether for 2026 or beyond. "If we can provide the stage for competitors from five continents to get to know ...

For Team USA’s Ryan Cochran-Siegle, Alpine skiing is the family business. Not only did his mother, Barbara Ann Cochran, win slalom gold at the 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics, she also runs the Richmond, ...

But it wasn’t that long ago that 2023 was supposed to be the year when the IOC would settle on a site for the 2030 Winter ...

After winning three gold medals in the Paris Olympics, the Philippines is setting its sights on a first-ever medal at the 2026 Winter Olympics.“We’ve a ...

Sapporo is believed to still hold an advantage ... funded entirely with $6.8 billion of private sector cash. A 2030 Winter Olympics in the U.S. would require sharing the marketing platform with ...