Sapporo to Show JOC Plan for 2026 Olympic Winter Games After Rio
- The Winter Games would cost as much as 456.5 billion yen
- Japan hosted Winter Games in Sapporo in 1972, Nagano in 1998
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Sapporo, which hosted the winter Olympics in 1972, is preparing to bid for the games again as it taps facilities used on the previous occasion amid a surge in visitors to its resorts in Hokkaido, northern Japan.
“We will present the bid to the Japanese Olympic Committee after the summer when the Rio Olympics and Para-Olympic games are over,” Tadakatsu Sato, head of a section tasked with attracting the games in the Sapporo city government, said by telephone Tuesday. “We’ve made a plan. We are working to build a joint goal with the people of Sapporo and heighten awareness as we move to summer.”