The IOC is aiming to award rights for the 2030 Games at next year's Session in Mumbai, with three former Winter Olympic hosts in Sapporo, Vancouver and Salt Lake City in contention.

However, United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee chair Susanne Lyons last month suggested that Salt Lake City would prefer to stage the 2034 edition.

The IOC opted to award the 2024 and 2028 Summer Games to Paris and Los Angeles at the Session in Lima in 2017, but Bach appeared to rule out such a move for 2030 and 2034, with his successor set to be elected in 2025.

"I think that even in a situation where you could have, on the mere technical side, good reasons to do it, that for reasons of good governance, it would not be the right thing to do," Bach said, as reported by Japanese news agency Kyodo.

German official Bach was first elected to an eight-year term in 2013, and was returned for a final four-year term last year.

He has overseen the introduction of a new process for awarding hosting rights to the IOC's flagship event, whereby its Future Host Commission identifies bidders, engages in dialogue with relevant parties and proposes its preferred candidate to the Executive Board.

The Executive Board can then recommend a proposal be brought to a vote at an IOC Session.

The 2030 edition is set to be the first Winter Olympics awarded under this process, with the IOC Executive Board aiming to make a decision on entering targeted dialogue in December with a view to a host city being finalised at the Session from May 30 to June 1 2023.

IOC technical inspections have taken place in Sapporo, Vancouver and Salt Lake City.

A Pyrenees-Barcelona bid collapsed last month following weeks of infighting, notably between the Governments of Catalonia and Aragon.