The Asian Winter Games will be staged in Almaty in 2029, the Olympic Council of Asia announced on Thursday, after the event was postponed from its original host city of Neom in Saudi Arabia.
The Games had been scheduled to take place in Neom, the futuristic mega-project backed by the Saudi government, but were delayed last month amid uncertainty over the delivery of the planned ski resort. Riyadh had discussed pushing the event back by four years from its original timetable.
Kazakhstan will now host the Games for a second time, having previously staged the event in 2011 across Almaty and Astana.
Almaty has recent experience of bidding for major winter sports events. The city was a candidate to host the 2022 Winter Olympics but lost out to Beijing.
