Stockholm meets deadline to submit bid for 2026 Olympics

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden’s Olympic leaders met a deadline Friday to submit a 2026 Winter Games hosting plan after satisfying concerns of lawmakers in Stockholm which threatened to end the bid last year.
The official name of the bid is now “Stockholm Are 2026,” with Alpine skiing events taking place in the resort of Are, 541 kilometers (336 miles) northwest of the capital.
The bid campaign was at risk in October when Stockholm’s new city government coalition cast doub