Bids for the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics
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.
| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Games of the I Youth Olympiad | |
| Winner: Singapore Runner-up: Moscow Shortlist: Athens · Bangkok · Turin | |
| Details | |
| Committee | IOC |
| Election venue | Lausanne |
| Map | |
Location of the bidding cities | |
| Important dates | |
| Bid | 26 October 2007 |
| Shortlist | 19 November 2007 |
| Decision | 21 February 2008 |
| Decision | |
| Winner | Singapore (53 votes) |
| Runner-up | Moscow (44 votes) |
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. 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.
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