Bids for the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics

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Bids for the
2024 (2024) Winter Youth Olympics
Overview
IV Winter Youth Olympic Games
Winner: Gangwon Province, South Korea
Details
Committee IOC
Election venue135th IOC Session
Lausanne, Switzerland
Map of the bidding cities
Bids for the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics
Important dates
Shortlist5 December 2019
Decision10 January 2020
Decision
Winner Gangwon Province, South Korea
Runner-up

There were a total of four bids which were initially submitted for the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics. On 8 January 2020, the IOC EB[ clarification needed ] agreed to award the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics to the province of Gangwon.

Contents

Gangwon Province were officially awarded the Games at the 135th IOC Session in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 10 January 2020.

Bidding process

The new IOC bidding process was approved at the 134th IOC Session in Lausanne, Switzerland. The key proposals driven by the relevant recommendations from Olympic Agenda 2020, are: [1] [2]

IOC also modified Olympic Charter to increase flexibility by removing the date of election from 7 years before the games, and changing the host as a city to multiple cities, regions, or countries.

Future Host Winter Commissions

The full composition of the Winter Commissions, oversee interested hosts, or with potential hosts where the IOC may want to create interest, is as follows: [3]

Future Host Winter Commissions for 2024 Winter Youth Olympics
IOC members (4)Other members (4)

Dialogue stages

According to Future Host Commission terms of reference with rules of conduct, the new IOC bidding system is divided to 2 dialogue stages are: [4]

Final selection

Pyeongchang could be formally elected as host of the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics on 10 January 2020 at the 135th IOC Session in Lausanne, Switzerland if all the requirements are fulfilled to the satisfaction of the Commission and the Executive Board. [5] The eligible voters are 82.

2024 Youth Olympic Games bidding results
PartyNationVotes
Gangwon Province Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 79
None of bid2
Absentation1
Total82

Bidding parties

The bidding parties for the 2024 Youth Olympics were:

Preferred hosts

The preferred hosts, which took part in targeted dialogue with IOC and Future Host Commission:

Governor of Gangwon Province, Choi Moon-soon, announced that the province had submitted a letter of interest to host 2024 Youth Winter Olympics with several venues from 2018 Winter Olympics as a part of post-Games plan. [6] Choi also hoped that Masikryong Ski Resort in North Korea could host some skiing events. [7] On 5 December 2019, the IOC executive board accepted the recommendation of the Future Host Commission for the Olympic Winter Games to initiate a targeted dialogue with the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee (KOC) for the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics, after IOC received the proposal from the KOC and Gangwon Province also has support from the National Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and the cities of PyeongChang and Gangneung. [8]

Interested parties

The interested parties, take part in continuous dialogue with IOC and Future Host Commission, were:. [9]

Brasov hosted the 2013 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival and submitted a bid to host the 2020 Youth Olympic Games (it lost over the Olympic Capital, Lausanne). The Romanian Olympic Committee announced that there might be a possibility to submit a new bid for the 2024 Games. [10]
Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Boyko Borissov launched a bid to host the event after Thomas Bach visited Sofia in September, 2018. [11] Sofia bid to host the 1992 and 1994 Winter Olympics, but lost to Albertville and Lillehammer respectively. Sofia was going to bid for the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics but did not submit a bid citing that they did not fill the requirements set by the IOC. The Bulgarian Olympic Committee was also interested in the city potentially bidding for the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics but eventually declined.
Before the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics, held in Buenos Aires, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach visited Ushuaia and talked about the possibility of holding the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics here. [12] By the end of the games, Bach said: "We were very impressed with the facilities in Ushuaia and in the mountains, seeing the many teams preparing for the winter sport season and all very happy with the conditions both on and off the ski piste. Ushuaia may study of hosting the Youth Winter Olympic Games but there is still some way to go". [13] He also mentioned that the city needs to address where to host ice sport events, though the infrastructure for skiing is well developed. [14] In October 2014 the Argentine Olympic Committee (COA) had already revealed the plan to use the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics as the launchpad for a bid in the near future. The Committee identified Argentina's south-eastern region of Patagonia, which comprises the southern section of the Andes mountains, as a possible location to host the Winter Games, [15] while in 2010 it was suggested that Ushuaia would be the main option for a bid. [16] The commonly regarded southernmost city in the world hosts the annually cross-country skiing marathon Ushuaia Loppet, has hosted several ice hockey tournaments (at the only full-size ice rink of South America) [17] and the FIS Freestyle Slopestyle World Cup, organized by the International Ski Federation. [18]
Possible venues:
Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang province and largest city in the northeastern China confirmed to apply for hosting the games on 3 March 2017. [21] The city has hosted most international sporting events such as the 1996 Asian Winter Games and the 2009 Winter Universiade. Harbin previously bid for the 2012 edition but lost to Innsbruck, Austria.
Changchun, the capital of Jilin province also considering a bid for the games and hosted most events such as the 2007 Asian Winter Games.

Cancelled bid

Sochi had expressed their interest to host the 2024 edition. The city previously hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics. On 9 December 2019, WADA barred Russia from bidding for international events as part of their penalty for state sponsored doping, meaning the bid has been rejected by the IOC.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">South Korea at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics</span> Sporting event delegation

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