The 2030 Winter Olympics will take place in the French Alps – subject to the French government and authorities providing the outstanding financial and organisational guarantees – the IOC Session voted on Wednesday. The 2034 Games are later expected to be awarded to Salt Lake City in the US. The International Olympic Committee’s executive board had already recommended the two bids as hosts back in June but the full meeting of IOC members in Paris had to rubber-stamp the decisions. France, about to host the Paris Summer Games, last held a Winter Olympics in Albertville in 1992, a Games not fondl…