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Something that Australia is unlikely to ever host is a winter Olympics. So, for an Australian living in France, I’m very pleased to hear that Annecy, just down the road from La Clusaz, wants to host the 2018 Winter Olympics, along with three other places in France (Nice, Grenoble and Pelvoux). This lovely logo (top left) has started appearing on websites and in magazines, and has now physically made it to La Clusaz in both banner and sticker form. La Clusaz would actually get quite a few of the events, as you can see from the two diagrams showing both the Winter Olympics and the Winter Paralympics sports locations.

If Annecy were to host the games, La Clusaz would host the ski jumping, combined nordic skiing, cross-country skiing and acrobatic jumping. La Plagne, not actually in Haute Savoie, but already equipped with a bobsleigh track from the Albertville Winter Olympics in 1992, would host the luge, bobsleigh and skeleton (that’s the one where the participants lay down on their bellies for that extra (!) hit of speed on their luge). Other events would be held in Chamonix and its surrounding resorts and Avoriaz.

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