Setback for 2030 Winter Olympics bid

The IOC is set to vote on the hosts for the 2030 and 2034 Winter Olympics. (EPA PHOTO)

France's 2030 Winter Olympics bid will be put to the vote on Wednesday but due to a lack of two key guarantees it will have conditions attached to it, the International Olympic Committee says.

The IOC is set to vote on the 2030 and 2034 Winter Games hosts, with Salt Lake City in the US the only candidate for the latter.

The French bid, which was picked in June by the IOC executive board as its recommendation to the session on Wednesday, has not provided the needed guarantees necessary for its approval.

One guarantee still to be delivered is the public partnership contribution from the two regions - the French bid involves the Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes and Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur regions. The other is a state guarantee to deliver the event.

"There will be a vote on 2030 on the French project but it will be linked to conditions," IOC president Thomas Bach told a press conference. "It will not be an unconditional vote."

"Since for constitutional reasons the French government could not yet deliver these formal guarantees then there will be conditions linked to it."

The IOC vote comes two days before the opening of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics.

The constitutional problem comes after French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and his government officially resigned last week.

It is now staying on in a caretaker capacity until a new cabinet is appointed following an inconclusive snap election.

While the caretaker government looks after current affairs, it cannot submit new laws to parliament or make any major changes, experts say.

There have been caretaker governments before in France, but none has ever stayed on for more than a few days.

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