Cyclocross will not feature at the 2030 Winter Olympics in the French Alps after IOC president Kirsty Coventry made clear the Games remain strictly limited to snow-and-ice sports. Speaking at an IOC congress press conference, Coventry said: "There is no room for summer sports at the Winter Games — it is only about sports on snow and ice." The ruling dashes the hopes of cycling's governing body, the UCI, which had been lobbying for years to include the discipline, with eight-time world champion Mathieu van der Poel among those who had spoken enthusiastically about the push; Coventry left open the possibility that new or innovative sports could be considered for the 2034 Winter Games in Salt Lake City, but cautioned that the Olympics cannot keep growing indefinitely.