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A tiny town in Finland’s Arctic Lapland region is bidding to host the 2032 Summer Olympics, in a tongue-in-cheek awareness-building campaign with serious undertones to draw attention to the effects of global warming. Salla, the self-proclaimed coldest place in Lapland located just north of the Arctic Circle, launched the international “Salla 2032 Summer Games Candidate City” campaign this week complete with a news conference and a promotional video on YouTube. In the video, residents of Salla, where temperatures can dip to -50 degrees celsius are seen practicing summer sports in full-fl...

Salla in Finnish Lapland has launched a bid to host the 2032 Summer Olympic games. It isn’t the first place you might expect to host the summer games - temperatures regularly drop to -50 degrees celsius and it’s dubbed Finland’s coldest town. But those behind the idea say this is not a celebratory occasion. The town is making the “crazy bid” to spread a serious message about the effects of climate change. The Fridays for Future, the youth-led environmental movement set up by Greta Thunberg. “Salla is changing. The whole planet is changing. Not in a good way,” reads its website....

Finnish Arctic town bids for 2032 Olympics in climate move By JARI TANNERJanuary 28, 2021 GMT HELSINKI (AP) — A tiny town in Finland’s Arctic Lapland region is bidding to host the 2032 Summer Olympics, in a tongue-in-cheek awareness-building campaign with serious undertones to draw attention to the effects of global warming. Salla, the self-proclaimed coldest place in Lapland located just north of the Arctic Circle, launched the international “Salla 2032 Summer Games Candidate City” campaign this week complete with a news conference and a promotional video on YouTube. In the video, re...

Wednesday, 27 January 2021 Salla, which claims to be the coldest town in Finland, has launched a parody bid to host the 2032 Summer Olympics, as part of efforts to raise awareness of global warming. The town, where temperatures regularly fall to around -50 degrees Celsius (-58 degrees Fahrenheit) says it is making the "crazy bid" as it wants to spread the "serious message" about the consequences of global warming. On its website Save Salla, it says: "We have created this bid to raise attention about the climate emergency.  "Salla is changing. The whole planet is changing. Not in a good way....