Stockholm bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics

On 17 January 2014, the Moderate Party in Stockholm decided not to support the bid, and after that there is a clear majority in the city council against organising the games.

Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth, Minister for Culture and Sports, has said that she finds it difficult to see a future Olympic games in Sweden.

The reason for this cost cut is that the Swedish government does not want to support the games with big money (several 100 million euros).

Gothenburg (with cities spread over Sweden) bid to host the 1984 Winter Olympics but lost to Sarajevo.

Falun (with Åre) bid to host the 1988 and 1992 Winter Olympics but lost to Calgary and Albertville respectively.

Östersund bid to host the 1994, 1998 and 2002 Winter Olympics but lost to Lillehammer, Nagano and Salt Lake City respectively.

There are suggestions to use an airfield at Järpen (25 km (16 mi) from Åre), which probably must be upgraded to be used for commercial passenger flights.