2018 Summer Youth Olympics

III Summer Youth Olympic Games
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The 2018 Summer Youth Olympics (officially known as III Summer Youth Olympic Games) are scheduled to be the third Summer Youth Olympic Games, a major international multi-sport event and cultural festival to be celebrated in the tradition of the Olympic Games, in 2018 during the XXXI Olympiad. It would be the fifth Youth Olympic Games overall, with the Winter Youth Olympics included. The host city is due to be elected in June 2013.

Bidding

The IOC launched the bidding process on September 15, 2011. A letter was sent out to all National Olympic Committees (NOCs). The key dates are the following:^[1][2]

Applicant Cities

There are six bids for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games confirmed by National Olympic Committees.^[3] Bids were due by March 1, 2012. The list of applicant cities was announced by the IOC on March 2, 2012.^[4]

For the first time, Asian NOCs didn't submitted a bid for the Summer Youth Olympics, thus making it the first time that Asia will not bid, and eventually, host the Games. 3 European NOCs (Great Britain, The Netherlands and Poland) entered Glasgow, Rotterdam and Poznań bids respectively. Latin American NOCs Argentina, Colombia and Mexico also submitted bids for Buenos Aires, Medellín and Guadalajara respectively.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

On August 30, 2011 Buenos Aires and the Argentine Olympic Committee announced that they will bid for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games.^[5]

Buenos Aires bid to host the 1956 Summer Olympics and 2004 Summer Olympics but lost to Melbourne and Athens respectively.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

On September 19, 2011, it was announced that Glasgow would submit to the British Olympic Association (BOA) a proposal to bid for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics. Glasgow will host the 2014 Commonwealth Games. The city has never made an Olympic bid before.^[6] On February 22, 2012 the BOA agreed to put Glasgow forward as the United Kingdom's bidding city for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.^[7]

Guadalajara, Mexico

Monterrey launched a bid to host the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics, but Guadalajara was selected on February 16, after a close vote between both cities.^[8][9]

Previously, Monterrey bid for the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics, but the Comité Olímpico Mexicano selected Guadalajara as Mexico's bidding city. Guadalajara withdrew their bid before the IOC vote due to poor evaluation report.^[10][11]

Medellín, Colombia

The mayor of the city presented the bid on September 15 in Lausanne, following the high standard venues and experiences they had at the 2010 South American Games.^[12]

Poznań, Poland

Upon the announcement by the IOC of who the applicant cities were, Poznań was revealed as one of the bidders. The city bid for the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics but lost to Nanjing.

Rotterdam, Netherlands

On February 29, 2012, the day before the deadline for bid for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics, it was announced that Rotterdam would be putting forth a bid.^[13]

Bids which did not go to application

The following cities proposed putting forth bids, but ultimately failed to do so:

• Toulouse, France^[14]
• Abuja, Nigeria ^[15][16]
• Kaspiysk, Russia ^{[17][18][19][20]}
• Durban, South Africa^[21]
• Gothenburg, Malmö or Stockholm, Sweden ^[22]
• Dubai, United Arab Emirates^[23]
• Raleigh, United States^[24][25][26]

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