The new IOC bidding process was approved at the
134th IOC Session at their headquarters in
Lausanne, Switzerland. The key proposals driven by the relevant recommendations from Olympic Agenda 2020, are:[1][2]
Establish a permanent, ongoing dialogue to explore and create interest among cities/regions/countries and National Olympic Committees for any Olympic event
Create four Future Host Commissions (Summer,Winter and Youth Games) to oversee interest in future Olympic events and report to the IOC executive board
Give the members present at the Sessions more influence by having non-EB members form part of the Future Host Commissions
At this session,IOC also modified the
Olympic Charter to increase flexibility by removing the rule to select a host city for the Games,the period between 5 and 7 years before the next disponible games, and changing the concept of the host-city and opened the possibility to Games to be held in a multiple cities, regions, or countries.
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:[3]
Continuous Dialogue: Non-committal discussions between the IOC and Interested Parties (City/Region/Country/NOC interested in hosting) with regard to hosting future Olympic events.
Targeted Dialogue: Targeted discussions with one or more Interested Parties (called Preferred Host(s)), as instructed by the IOC Executive Board. This follows a recommendation by the Future Host Commission as a result of Continuous Dialogue.
Timeline
Future Summer Host Commission meeting (16–17 January 2020)
On 1 February 2024, IOC President
Thomas Bach announced that the host city wouldn't be announced until early 2025.[4]
Interested parties
The following are interested bidding parties for the 2028 Winter Youth Olympics, one of which took part in targeted dialogue with the IOC and Future Host Commission:
In June 2023, the Italian regions of Lombardy and Trentino began continuous dialogue with the International Olympic Committee over hosting the Winter Youth Olympic Games in 2028.[5]Milan, the capital of Lombardy will host the with
Cortina d'Ampezzo in Veneto will be the main host cities of the
2026 Winter Olympics, while
Val di Fiemme in Trentino will host several events during those games as well.
On 11 April 2024,
Peter Kaiser, the
governor of
Carinthia, announced that a joined bid of the Austrian state of Carinthia, alongside the Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia and an unknown state in Slovenia, will be prepared. If selected, the Winter Youth Olympics would pose as a test event for an eventual Olympic bid in the future.[7]
On 23 April 2024, the
Bulgarian Olympic Committee held a meeting with the Bulgarian president,
Rumen Radev, and other political leaders and sports industry representatives to discuss the potential for Bulgaria to host the Youth Olympic Games. They proposed that the capital,
Sofia and the nearby mountain,
Vitosha host. They also acknowledged the need for sports and transport infrastructure in the country to be modernized, as well that efforts from the public would be necessary.[8] Sofia previously expressed interest in hosting the
2012 and
2016 Winter Youth Olympics, but decided against bidding for either.
In November 2019, the mayor of the Ukrainian city of Lviv announced that the city would bid for the 2028 Winter Youth Olympics as well as the
2030 Winter Olympics. The nordic and ice sports would be staged in Poland, the bobsleigh and luge competitions in Sigulda, Latvia. After the
Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, a bid seems unlikely.[9]
1 – Games handed without bids submitted; 2 – Only one bid submitted; 3 – Bids submitted but no Games celebration; 4 – No bids submitted and no Games celebration
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