The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today announced that six National Olympic Committees (NOCs) have submitted applications to host the 2nd Summer Youth Olympic Games in 2014. They are, in alphabetical order: China, Indonesia, Mexico, Morocco, Poland and Turkey.
A number of NOCs requested additional time to designate the city they wish to put forward as Candidate City. The IOC has extended the deadline for these NOCs to submit the name of their cities to 1 April 2009. As of today, Jakarta (Indonesia), Nanjing (China) and Poznan (Poland) have already been confirmed.
The updated timelines below outline the bid process. The date of the election by the IOC members and of the announcement of the host city remains unchanged.
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Updated timelines - 2nd Summer Youth Olympic Games 2014 bid process |
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Signature of Candidature Procedure and submission of names of Candidate Cities |
1 April 2009 |
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Submission of Candidature Files |
4 September 2009 |
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IOC Executive Board to draw up list of finalist cities |
December 2009 |
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Publication of Evaluation Commission report |
January 2010 |
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Election and announcement of the Host City of the 2nd Summer Youth Olympic Games at the 122nd IOC Session in Vancouver |
February 2010 |
Regarding the sports program for the Summer Youth Olympic Games, the IOC makes the following statement in the GENERAL PRESENTATION (click here):
The program of the 2nd Summer YOG 2014 may be chosen from the Summer Olympic Sports in the 2016 program. All competitions must be held in the Host City and it is not an obligation to include all Olympic sports on the Summer Youth Olympic Games programme – if, for example, no existing facilities exist within the YOG Candidate City for certain sports, a project may be presented with fewer sports. The 2016 Olympic Games program will be constituted from the sports program of the London 2012 Olympic Games, with, in addition, a maximum of two sports that could be voted at the 121st IOC Session in Copenhagen in October 2009. In the meantime and for the purpose of the candidature procedure, the programme of the 2012 Games should be used as a reference.
