The French Olympic Committee has chosen the candidate on carrying out of winter Olympic games of 2018 small Alpine city Annecy. At voting Annecy has bypassed Nice and Grenoble.

Annecy it is located in the east of France, near to border with Switzerland. The city totals the little more than 50 thousand inhabitants.

Competitors in struggle for a title of Olympic capital 2018

Competitors Annecy in struggle for carrying out of Olimpiady-2018 will be: Munich, Reno-Tahoe, Tromse, and Phenchhan who applied for the winter Olympic Games 2010 and 2014.

Last time France accepted Olympic games in 1992 (Winter Olympic Games in Albertville). Paris applied for carrying out of the summer Olympic Games 2008 and 2012, but the choice in both cases became not in favour of the French capital.