Despite Trojena’s cooler high-altitude climate, limited snowfall and challenging terrain pose significant engineering and logistical hurdles, factors that may help explain the decision to postpone the Games
By Pranati Yekula
Saudi Arabia’s Olympic Committee and the Olympic Council of Asia have announced the postponing of the 2029 Asian Winter Games, which were supposed to be held in a mountain resort in NEOM’s Trojena.
In a statement, the Olympic Council of Asia said the two bodies had agreed “to an updated framework for future hosting” of the games, which will be postponed “to a later date to be announced in due course,” with no specific reason provided.
Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, who was the 2020 overall World Cup champion called on the International Ski and Snowboard Federation to rethink “how we want to communicate our sport.”
“Of course, we need to travel, because we need to find snow. But it’s not just to fly around the world and to go to different places just to gain interest, we also need to gain interest in a natural and good environmental way,” Kilde said. More
