| Overview | |
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| Games of the I Youth Olympiad | |
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| Winner: Singapore Runner-up: Moscow Shortlist: Athens · Bangkok · Turin | |
| Details | |
| Committee | IOC |
| Election venue | Lausanne |
| Map of the bidding cities | |
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| Important dates | |
| Bid | 26 October 2007 |
| Shortlist | 19 November 2007 |
| Decision | 21 February 2008 |
| Decision | |
| Winner | Singapore (53 votes) |
| Runner-up | Moscow (44 votes) |
The bidding for the 2010 Youth Olympics Games began in August 2007, to which nine cities presented their candidature files. In the competition to host the inaugural Youth Olympic Games in 2010, the list was shortened to five in November 2007. The list was further shortened to two in January 2008—Moscow and Singapore.[1]
Moscow was the highest rated city in the evaluation report, but may have been disadvantaged due to the win by Russian city Sochi to host the 2014 Winter Olympics.[2] Singapore also had a very high evaluation and had a possible geographical advantage, being situated in a region (Southeast Asia) which had never hosted.
Singapore was announced as the host city on 21 February 2008 after a tally of a postal vote.[3]
- ^ IOC Selects Moscow and Singapore To Youth Olympic Games Short List
- ^ "Olympics: Singapore favourites for Youth Olympics: IOC member". Archived from the original on 2008-01-08. Retrieved 2008-01-12.
- ^ Singapore to host the 1st Summer Youth Olympic Games in 2010 Archived 2008-08-01 at the Wayback Machine