$38.39mln to be spent on hosting 2025 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Tbilisi, Bakuriani - PM
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Monday said ₾100 million ($38.39mln) would be spent on hosting the 2025 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Tbilisi and Bakuriani. Photo: PM's press office
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Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Monday said ₾100 million ($38.39mln) would be spent on hosting the 2025 Winter Youth Olympic Games in capital Tbilisi and the winter resort town of Bakuriani.
The Government Administration cited Garibashvili as saying “proper infrastructure” would be created for the event.
A biathlon and ski racing track will be set up in Bakuriani while an ice rink will be built in Tbilisi, he noted, with other new infrastructure to also be added to both locations.
Garibashvili said ₾25 million ($9.60mln) would be spent on the project this year.
The Freestyle Ski, Snowboard and Freeski World Championships closed in Georgia’s ski resort of Bakuriani on Saturday with Tess Ledeux of France and the Troy Podmilsak of the United States earning the final gold medals in the big air showcase.
Michel Vion, the Secretary General of the International Ski Federation, on Saturday praised the ongoing Freestyle Ski, Snowboard and Freeski World Championships in Georgia’s winter resort of Bakuriani as the “best tournament” held with “very good outcome” and stressed Georgia had everything to become a winter sports destination.
Georgia’s popular ski resorts of Bakuriani and Gudauri have been marked as permanent hosts in the competition calendar of the International Ski and Snowboard Federation, enabling the destinations to host stages of World Cup events running under the body annually. The Mountain Trails Agency of Georgia on Wednesday said the two locations would be among 11 resorts around the world hosting 19 events of the 2023-2024 FIS Ski Cross World Cup calendar.
The 49th Executive Committee of the European Olympic Committees (EOC) General Assembly has today decided to award host status to the Georgian ski resort of Bakuriani for the 2025 Winter Youth Olympic Games, announces Georgian National Olympic Committee.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and Government officials on Friday discussed the ongoing preparations for hosting the 2025 Winter Youth Olympic Games, the Government Administration announced.
Georgia’s Tetnuldi ski resort in northwestern Svaneti region will host the Freeride World Tour in 2024 for the first time in the history of the country, alongside Canada, Andorra, Spain, Switzerland and Austria.
Irakli Burchuladze, the Director of the Mountain Trails Agency, on Saturday said that hosting the Freeride World Tour in 2024 in Georgia’s Tetnuldi ski resort in northwestern Svaneti region “is a victory for the country”, stressing Georgia would “once again be marked” on the world sports map in a new direction.