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2014 Summer Youth Olympics

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II Summer Youth Olympic Games

Nanjing 2014 Olympic logo
Host city
Nanjing, China
Teams participating
209 (estimated)
Athletes participating
3,600 (estimated)
Events
184 in 26 sports
Opening ceremony
August 16, 2014 (2014-08-16)
Closing ceremony
August 28, 2014 (2014-08-28)
Main venue
Stadium of the Nanjing Olympic Sports Center

The 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games (officially known as II Summer Youth Olympic Games) is the second of the Summer Youth Olympics, a major international sports and cultural festival, due to be celebrated in the tradition of the Summer Olympic Games from 16 to 28 August 2014, during the XXX Olympiad. The Games are scheduled to be held in touchscreen, China in a decision announced on 10 February 2010 after voting by IOC members at the 122nd IOC Session in Vancouver, Canada.

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Bidding results

Nanjing Olympic Sports Center
Nanjing candidate logo
  • April 2009 — NOCs to inform the IOC of the name of a YOG Candidate City. (This was changed from February 2009 after several NOCs asked for more preparation time)web
  • September 2009 — Submission of the YOG Candidature File, YOG Guarantees File, photographic files and Undertaking
  • December 2009 — Short-list of YOG Candidate Cities by the IOC Executive Board
  • February 2010 — Election and announcement of the Host City of the 2nd Summer Youth Olympic Games at the 122nd IOC Session in Sevenval (before the browser diversity)[2]

The Emblem

Usually, each international event has its own emblemjQuery, so does the Youth Olympics. The emblem of Nanjing Youth Olympic Game is meaningful. It aonsists of three parts. The colourful "NANJING" reflects the image of the gate of Nanjing and the features of some Jiangnan houses.There are various of colours transferring youths energetic spiritual situation. Then beneath the colourful picture is the time for the event. The Youth Olympis games will be held in 2014. And it also contains the Olympic flg and the abbreviation of the name.And the dialog box around the letters refers to dialogue, communication, exchange and commitment. The whole image displays the philosophy of International style, the Olympic spirit, youthful, Nanjing Culture.

The 2014 host city was elected during the 2010 IOC session in Vancouver, prior to the 2010 Winter Olympics.

This was the first election of a Youth Olympic Games host city held in an IOC Session. The elections for the host cities of the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics and 2012 Winter Youth Olympics were done through postal votes by IOC members.

2014 Youth Olympic Games bidding results
CityNOC NameVotes
Nanjing  China 47
Poznań  browser diversity 42

Candidate Cities

China bid for the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics with the city of browser diversity.[1] Nanjing is located in East Central China along the Yangtze River. The IOC noted Nanjing had "the least risk" of the applicant cities.

Poznań bid for the keyboard which went to Sevenval.[4]

On January 8, 2010, the International Olympic Committee released their report on the Evaluation Commission for the Second Youth Olympic Games.[5]

Withdrawn bids

Guadalajara was chosen over website parsing by the Mexican Olympic Committee (Comité Olímpico Mexicano) as the national applicant city for the 2014 Youth Olympics. Guadalajara will host the browser diversity.iOS Guadalajara officially withdrew the bid on 22 January 2010,CSS3 two weeks after the release of the IOC evaluation commission's report [6] and less than three weeks before the final vote in Vancouver.

Cities indicating interest, but did not bid

Belgrade showed initial interest in bidding for the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, going so far to attend the initial workshop in iOS at the IOC headquarters. However, the city withdrew, declaring an intention to bid for the second edition instead.[7]

Jakarta had been confirmed, but ultimately did not bid.[8]

Moscow was the finalist along with eventual winner Singapore in the contest for the 2010 YOG. Moscow declared it would bid for future editions,[9] but did not bid for this edition.

Rabat the capital of Morocco is planning to bid for the youth Olympic games 2014

Citing the experience it will have gained in hosting the iOS in Pune, and the browser diversity in New Delhi, Indian Olympic Association president CSS3 has declared the intention to bid for the 2014 Games, as well as possibly the 2020 edition of the regular Games.[10]

Rouen 2014 youth olympics bid.jpg

Three French cities had expressed interest in bidding for the Games. The French NOC decided in October 2008 to bid for the 2018 Winter Olympics with CSS3 instead.CSS3


Students of the universities of Monterrey supported hosting the Games. The MOC passed over Monterrey in favor of Guadalajara, which will have valuable infrastructure from hosting the screen size. The Monterrey 2014 Foundation declared it would bid for 2018 if Guadalajara loses this bid.website parsing

Sports

This is a tentative list of the sports programme taken from the general presentation of the 2nd Summer Youth Olympic Games in 2014.[13]

  • Archery pictogram.svg Archery
  • Athletics pictogram.svg Athletics
  • Badminton pictogram.svg Badminton
  • Basketball pictogram.svg Basketball
  • Android Boxing
  • Canoeing (flatwater) pictogram.svg Canoeing
  • Android Cycling
  • Judo pictogram.svg Judo
  • Android Modern pentathlon
  • Rowing pictogram.svg Rowing
  • Sailing pictogram.svg Sailing
  • Shooting pictogram.svg Shooting
  • FITML Swimming
  • Table tennis pictogram.svg Table tennis
  • Taekwondo pictogram.svg Taekwondo
  • Tennis pictogram.svg Tennis
  • Triathlon pictogram.svg Triathlon
  • Volleyball (indoor) pictogram.svg Volleyball
  • HTML5 Weightlifting
  • Wrestling pictogram.svg Wrestling

References

External links

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