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Sweden emerges as sudden front-runner to host 2030 Olympics

FILE - Crown Princess Victoria from Sweden, member of the candidate for the Olympic Winter Games 2026 Stockholm-Are delegation, hugs Sweden's Olympic Committee President Mats Arjes, left, as International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach from Germany announces that Milan-Cortina has won the bid to host the 2026 Winter Olympic Games, during the first day of the 134th Session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), at the SwissTech Convention Centre, in Lausanne, on June 24, 2019. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP, File)

FILE - Nils van der Poel of Sweden reacts after breaking his own world record in the men's speedskating 10,000-meter race at the 2022 Winter Olympics, on Feb. 11, 2022, in Beijing. For an ailing search for a 2030 Olympics host now to have Sweden emerge as frontrunner is a surprise in Stockholm as elsewhere. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

FILE - International Olympic Committee, IOC, President Thomas Bach from Germany, shakes hands with Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven during the first day of the 134th Session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), at the SwissTech Convention Centre, in Lausanne, on June 24, 2019. For an ailing search for a 2030 Olympics host now to have Sweden emerge as frontrunner is a surprise in Stockholm as elsewhere. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP, File)

Sweden emerges as sudden front-runner to host 2030 Olympics