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Buenos Aires will host the 3rd Summer Youth Olympic Games in 2018
IOC President Jacques Rogge makes the announcement at an Extraordinary IOC Session in Lausanne The City of Buenos Aires will be hosting the 3rd Summer Youth Olympic Games in 2018, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge announced following a vote by the IOC members at an Extraordinary IOC Session in Lausanne.
Buenos Aires was elected ahead of Glasgow (Great Britain) and Medellín (Colombia). The first voting round had Buenos Aires with 40 supports; Glasgow, 13 and Medellin, 32. In the second round, Buenos Aires obtained 49 votes and Medellin, 39.
Prior to the vote, the Candidate Cities each had 15 minutes to give a presentation to the Session, followed by questions. Evaluation Commission Chair Claudia Bokel addressed the Session on behalf of the Commission.
“We had three excellent candidates from which to choose a host city today, each with the capability of staging memorable Youth Olympic Games in 2018,” said IOC President Rogge.
“I would like to congratulate Buenos Aires and their bid team for their dedication to and enthusiasm for the Youth Olympic Games project. I have no doubt they will build on the successes of Singapore 2010 and Nanjing 2014 to provide a platform on which the best young athletes from around the world can compete and learn about the Olympic values.”
The announcement was the culmination of a bidding process launched in September 2011, which originally included six Candidate Cities - the three other cities were Guadalajara (Mexico), Poznań (Poland) and Rotterdam (Netherlands).
After a thorough review of the Candidature Files and other relevant documentation submitted by five of the Candidate Cities (Poznań withdrew from the bidding process), the IOC Working Group, led by Claudia Bokel, presented a report to the IOC Executive Board (EB). Based on this report, the EB announced Buenos Aires, Glasgow and Medellín as short-listed candidates at a meeting in Lausanne in February 2013.
The 2nd Summer Youth Olympic Games will be held in Nanjing, China, from 16 to 28 August 2014
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Read all commentsUnless CFK and her cronies have been ousted by then, I doubt there will be much attendance.
Jul 05th, 2013 - 02:26 pm 0Can we get any Falkland Islands athletes up to Olympic qualifying time? I love seeing a wide variety of flags represented at the games. I train on British soil to compete on Argentine soil.
Jul 05th, 2013 - 02:39 pm 0Ask yourself a serious question: who in their right mind would allow their youngsters and teenagers to go to The Dark Country?
Jul 05th, 2013 - 10:28 pm 0Besides the rapes, murders and robberies are the RCC going to be kept out of the proceedings or, like with all the governments’ presentations, there is to be a priest for the blessing?
But let that be our little secret!
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