We saw world records being shattered, South America win its first medal at the Winter Games, new heroes rise up, and old legends wave goodbye - the 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Milano-Cortina were a two-week-long highlight reel, and we already can’t wait for the next Olympics.
As always, it will be a two-year wait before we get to see the world’s greatest athletes fight for the coveted gold medals. But where will they be held? Flashscore maps out the next hosts of the Olympic Games.
Where will the 2028 Olympic Games be held?
For the next epic chapter, the Olympics will return to Los Angeles, California, in the United States in the summer of 2028.
The city on the American West Coast will host the Olympic Games for the third time in its history after 1932 and 1984, joining London (1908, 1948, 2012) and Paris (1900, 1924, 2024) as the only three-time hosts in the competition’s rich history.
Los Angeles will be the stage for both the opening and closing ceremonies, which will be held in SoFi Stadium and the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The opening ceremony, which will be held on July 14, 2028, will be simultaneously held across both venues, while the closing ceremony will solely take place at The Coliseum, where the previous games in 1932 and 1984 were held.
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum will be the stage for athletics events, while SoFi Stadium, which is normally used by the Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers from the NFL, will host all swimming events. Other venues in Los Angeles include the Los Angeles Lakers’ Crypto.com Arena (gymnastics), the Los Angeles Clippers’ Intuit Dome (basketball), the Rose Bowl (football), Santa Anita Park (equestrian), and Riviera Country Club (golf), while the newly added flag football and lacrosse will be played at BMO Stadium, home of Los Angeles FC in the Major League Soccer.
In addition to Los Angeles, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, will host two sports: softball and canoe slalom.
The 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, nicknamed LA 28, will be held from July 12-30, 2028.
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Where will the 2030 Olympic Games be held?
In 2030, the Olympic Games will be held in the French Alps for the first time since 1992.
France will host the Winter Olympics for the fourth time in its history. The first-ever Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix in the French Alps in 1924, after which the region hosted the Games in 1968 (Grenoble) and 1992 (Albertville). The French Alps will be the first region to have hosted the Winter Games four times.
The venue of the opening ceremony, which will be held on July 1st, 2030, is yet to be announced. The closing ceremony will be held on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice on February 17th, 2030.
The sporting events of the 2030 Olympics will be held across several clusters in the French Alps. The following clusters will host the sports at the 2030 Olympics:
Nice: Stade de Nice (ice hockey), Palais Nikaïa (curling)
Briançon: Serre Chevalier (freestyle skiing, snowboarding (aerials, moguls, big air)), Montgenèvre (freestyle skiing, snowboarding (ski cross, cross halfpipe, slopestyle, parallel giant slalom))
Savoie: La Plagne (bobsleigh, luge, skeleton ), Courchevel (Alpine skiing, ski jumping, Nordic combined), Val-d’Isère (Alpine skiing)
Haute-Savoie: La Clusaz (cross-country skiing), Le Grand-Bornand (biathlon)
The IOC has not yet confirmed the venues for the speed skating, figure skating, and short-track speed skating tournaments. Edgar Grospiron, President of the Games’ organising committee, has said it will be too expensive to build a new venue. The current options are either to renovate venues in Albertville and/or Grenoble or to host the events outside the country. Oval Lingotto in Turin, Italy, and Thialf in Heerenveen, Netherlands, are mentioned as possible venues.
The 2030 Olympics in the French Alps will be held between February 1 and 17, 2030.
Where will the 2032 Olympic Games be held?
The Olympic Games of 2032 will be held in Brisbane, Australia.
The Games in Brisbane, nicknamed Bris2032, will be the third Olympics held in Australia after the Summer Games of 1956 (Melbourne) and 2000 (Sydney). It will be the second time in Olympic history that the Summer Games will be held in the host’s winter, after 2016 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).
Like the 2030 Olympics, the 2032 Summer Games will be held across several locations in and around Brisbane, with the three main zones being Brisbane, Gold Coast, and Sunshine Coast.
The opening and closing ceremonies will be held in the Brisbane Olympic Stadium on July 23rd, 2032. The Brisbane Olympic Stadium, which will start construction in 2026 or 2027 and is expected to open in 2031 or 2032, will also host all athletics events.
The following Brisbane venues will organise sporting events:
National Aquatic Centre (swimming, diving, water polo, artistic swimming), South Bank Piazza (3x3 basketball), Lang Park (football), Sleeman Sports Complex (track cycling, BMX racing), Brisbane International Shooting Centre (shooting), Royal Queensland Golf Club (golf), Springfield Central Stadium (modern pentathlon), Brisbane Entertainment Centre (basketball), Moreton Bay Indoor Sports Centre (boxing), Redland Whitewater Centre (canoe slalom), Queensland Tennis Centre (tennis), The Gabba (cricket**), Brisbane Showgrounds (TBA), Queensland State Netball Centre (TBA).
The following Gold Coast venues will organise sporting events:
Gold Coast Convention & Exhibition Centre (volleyball*, weightlifting), Broadbeach Park Stadium (beach volleyball), Gold Coast Sports and Leisure Centre (judo, wrestling), Southport Broadwater Parklands (field hockey), Coomera Indoor Sports Centre (volleyball*), Robina Stadium (football*), Gold Coast Arena (TBA)
The following Sunshine Coast venues will organise sporting events:
Sunshine Coast Stadium (football*), Sunshine Coast Indoor Sports Centre (TBA), Alexandra Headland (road cycling, marathon, race walks, kiteboarding), Sunshine Coast Mountain Bike Centre (mountain bike).
The following out-of-state and regional Queensland venues will organise sporting events:
Logan Indoor Sports Centre (Logan City, TBA), Griffith University Logan Campus Ballpark (Logan City, baseball/softball**), Toowoomba Showgrounds (Toowoomba, equestrian), North Queensland Stadium (Townsville, football*), Maryborough (venue TBA, archery), Whitsunday Islands (Townsville, sailing), Barlow Park (Cairns, football*), Cairns Convention Centre (Cairns, TBA), Fitzroy River (Rockhampton, canoe, rowing), Great Barrier Reef Arena (Mackay, cricket**), Sydney Football Stadium (Sydney, football*), Melbourne Rectangular Stadium (Melbourne, football*).
*=preliminaries included
**=potential venue
In addition to Brisbane Olympic Stadium, the following venues are yet to be built:
Moreton Bar Indoor Sports Centre, Redland Whitewater Centre, Gold Coast Arena, Sunshine Coast Indoor Sports Centre, and both Logan City venues.
The 2032 Olympic Games will be held between July 23rd and August 8th, 2032.
Where will the 2034 Olympic Games be held?
The 2034 Olympic Games will return to the United States and be held in the state of Utah.
The 2034 Winter Games, branded as Utah 2034, will be the fifth Winter Olympics and tenth overall Olympics to be held in the United States. Salt Lake City will also be the fifth city to have (co-)hosted multiple Winter Olympics after first having hosted it in 2002.
The Olympic Games in Utah will be held across two different zones: the Salt Lake City Zone and the Wasatch Back Zone. Two venues have been placed outside both zones.
The opening and closing ceremonies of Utah 2034 will be held in Rice-Eccles Stadium, the stadium of the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City. Rice-Eccles Stadium also hosted the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2002 Olympics. However, as before, the stadium will not host any sporting events.
The following Salt Lake City Zone venues will host sporting events:
Block 85 (snowboarding (big air), freestyle skiing (big air), Medals Plaza), Delta Center (ice hockey), Maverik Center (figure skating, short track speed skating), Salt Palace (curling), Utah Olympic Oval (speed skating)
The following Wasatch Back Zone venues will host sporting events:
Deer Valley (freestyle skiing (aerials & moguls), Park City Mountain Resort (snowboarding (halfpipe & slopestyle), freestyle skiing (halfpipe & slopestyle)), Soldier Hollow (biathlon, cross-country skiing, Nordic combined), Utah Olympic Park Track (bobsleigh, luge, skeleton), Utah Olympic Park Jumps (ski jumping, Nordic combined)
The two venues outside these zones are Peaks Ice Arena in Provo, where ice hockey will be hosted, and Snowbasin Resort in Weber County, where alpine skiing will be hosted.
The 2034 Olympic Games will be held between February 10 and 26, 2034.
Where will the 2036 Olympic Games be held?
No host nation has yet been elected for the 2036 Summer Olympic Games. The IOC (International Olympic Committee) has not disclosed a timeline either.
Several bids have been submitted as of February 2026. The following nations have officially submitted a bid to host the 2036 Olympic Games:
India (Ahmedabad), Qatar (Doha), Türkiye (Istanbul), Chile (Santiago), South Africa (host city TBA).
The following nations have expressed their interest in hosting the 2036 Olympic Games, but have not submitted a bid yet:
Egypt (The New Capital), South Korea (Seoul or North Jeolla Province), Saudi Arabia (Riyadh), China, Hong Kong, and Macau (Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macau), Hungary (Budapest), Italy (Rome, Florence-Bologna or Turin), Denmark (Copenhagen), Germany (Berlin, Hamburg or Rhine-Rhur region), Canada (Toronto-Montréal).
Where will the 2038 Olympic Games be held?
No host nation has yet been elected for the 2038 Winter Olympic Games. The IOC has stated that a host nation will be elected by the end of 2027 at the latest.
Only Switzerland has confirmed that it has submitted a bid to host the 2038 Olympic Games, with several cities (Geneva, Lausanne, Crans-Montana, Lugano, Zug, Zurich, Engelberg, Lenzerheide, St. Moritz-Celerina, St. Moritz-Silvaplana) hosting sporting events.
Canada has stated that it would be willing to submit a hosting bid if Switzerland's bid does not materialise.
