Proposals to incorporate summer season sports activities within the Winter Olympics would “dilute” the Video games, in keeping with the physique which represents present disciplines.

The Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) has established working teams to evaluate the points of each the summer season and winter Video games as a part of its ‘Match For The Future’, exterior session underneath new president Kirsty Coventry.

World Athletics chief Lord Coe beforehand indicated cross-country operating and cyclo-cross may very well be added to the programme for the Winter Olympics.

Nonetheless, Winter Olympic Federations secretary normal Colin Grahamslaw advised BBC Sport there are reservations about introducing sports activities that are “visually” summer season sports activities.

“We expect the Winter Video games has a extremely good sturdy visible id of snow and ice. And we expect that’s distinctive and is price preserving,” Grahamslaw mentioned.

“I feel the considerations are, by bringing in some summer season sports activities that perhaps occur within the winter however not on snow and ice, you dilute that model.

“You dilute that id. And it isn’t visually very completely different from what you may see on the summer season Video games.”

BBC Sport has approached the IOC for remark.

The Olympics Constitution presently states that “solely these sports activities that are practised on snow or ice are thought-about as winter sports activities”.

In 2023, the IOC mentioned analysis confirmed solely 10 nations will be capable of host snow sports activities by 2040 due to the impression of local weather change, and accepted “a must adapt the Olympic Winter Video games”.

Grahamslaw, who can be secretary of the World Curling Federation, mentioned if there was a want from the IOC to extend the variety of sports activities within the Winter Olympics then the Winter Olympic Federations ought to be consulted.

The Winter Olympic Federations collectively represents the governing our bodies of biathlon, bobsleigh and skeleton, ice hockey, luge, skating, ski and snowboard and curling.

“If there’s capability inside the Winter video games for extra sports activities, extra motion, extra dynamics, then we will present that from inside the snow and ice neighborhood,” the Briton added.

“You are going to see ski mountaineering for the primary time in Milan Cortina 2026, as a part of the Winter Olympic Video games. That is a brand new dynamic sport that I feel individuals can get behind and revel in.

“Should you take a look at ice hockey, they’ve a shortened model of three on three.”

The Winter Olympic Federations mentioned in an announcement earlier this week it was “totally dedicated” to “innovation, universality, and strengthening the particular and clearly differentiated enchantment” of the Olympic Winter Video games.

Nonetheless, they mentioned the Video games are “not higher served by piecemeal proposals” such because the inclusion of summer season disciplines.