IOC Names Youth Olympics Host Shortlist
The International Olympic Committee has shortlisted five cities to bid to host the inaugural Summer Youth Olympics in 2010.
Athens, Bangkok, Moscow, Singapore and Turin won through to be selected as candidate cities from a total of nine entrants with Debrecen, Guatemala City, Kuala Lumpur and Poznan missing out.
The selection was made on the basis of a study of the cities’ candidature files and related documents submitted to the IOC on 26th October 2007.
The projects of the five short listed candidate cities will now be further assessed by an IOC Evaluation Commission, chaired by IOC Executive Board member Sergey Bubka.
The IOC Evaluation Commission will submit its report to the IOC Executive Board at the end of January 2008.
On the basis of this report, the IOC Executive Board will recommend which candidate cities will be submitted to the IOC members for election as host city.
Following a postal vote by all IOC members, the host city for the 1st Summer Youth Olympic Games will be announced at the end of February 2008.
