Quebec City is abandoning a plan to make a bid for the 2026 Olympic Games.
The city never really had a chance to host the Winter Games, but Mayor Regis Labeaume has repeatedly tried to garner support for a bid.
His latest plan was to pair up with another city that had a mountain high enough to host the men's downhill races.
The U.S. Olympic Committee said in April that it was concentrating on a bid to host the 2024 summer games, and would not join forces to have Lake Placid, Vermont, host the downhill events in 2026.
Labeaume had also reached out to Calgary and Whistler to host the downhill events, but without success.
In 2011 the International Olympic Committee told Quebec City was not eligible to host the winter games because the nearby mountains were too low, but three years later the IOC said it would welcome twinned cities making bids for the Olympic Games.
Labeaume went to Lausanne, Switzerland earlier this year to explore ways Quebec City could make a bid for the Games.
