Athletes’ villages, sports equipment, public access: the financing and detailed costs of the forty works planned for the 2030 Winter Olympic Games (OG) were validated on Wednesday January 28 during a board meeting of Solideo, the public establishment responsible for their delivery.
The final map of the sites to host the events in the French Alps will not be finalized until June. The Olympic works delivery company is therefore based on a “preferential scheme” providing for around forty works, the overall cost of which was estimated in December 2025 at 1.4 billion euros.
Of this envelope, the public contribution is planned at 868 million euros, 587 million coming from the State and the two host regions (Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) and 281 million contributed by other communities. A little more than 500 million euros will also be provided by private operators, mainly real estate developers.
On Wednesday, following a board meeting, Solideo announced the approval of its “financial model”either “all costs and financing associated with each operation”. The establishment specifies that this document has been “developed in consultation with all the communities concerned” et “is based on balanced, shared and sustainable financing, strictly limited to the needs necessary for the organization of the Games and the construction of their legacy”. However, it does not reveal any figures on the amounts planned for each work.
But, a detailed document was made public by the JOP 2030 Citizen Collective, which denounces the absence of “public participation in the decision-making process” before the candidacy for these Olympic Games as well as since their attribution, and which launched several procedures before a UN body in Geneva and before the administrative courts of Lyon and Marseille.
More than 290 million euros for the Briançon Olympic Village
According to the document, the Olympic village of Briançon (Hautes-Alpes) will be the most important structure, with a cost of 296 million euros. The other athletes’ villages will be located in Saint-Jean-de-Sixt, in Haute-Savoie (for 51 million euros), in Bozel, in Savoie (78 million euros), and in Nice (86 million euros).
The only infrastructure to be built entirely, the Nice sports complex to host ice sports events benefits from a budget of 148 million euros, which rises to 186 million if we add the “contingencies, acceleration measures and adjustments”. Renovations of sports equipment are also planned, such as the Courchevel ski jump or the La Plagne bobsleigh track (43 million euros each).
Logistics side, a third traffic lane “reserved” among other things for the transport of athletes is planned in the Serre-Chevalier valley, for 41 million euros. And “the valley elevator” connecting the Aime SNCF station to the La Plagne station costs 101 million.
The adoption of the “financial model” East “a decisive step in preparing for the Games”underlined the Minister responsible for sports, Marina Ferrari. The president of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region, Renaud Muselier, estimated, for his part, that “every euro is useful”while his counterpart for Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Fabrice Pannekoucke, highlighted “the ability of public actors to work together”.
“It is a sober roadmap, with few new constructions, very little net land artificialization, and a big effort focused on carbon-free mobility”had summarized, the week of January 19 to 25, before the senators, Damien Robert, executive general director of Solideo, also emphasizing that it remained “now less than four years” with “a constrained budget envelope”.
