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UPDATE 1-Olympics--Lausanne chosen as host city of 2020 Winter Youth Olympics

Published 2015-07-31, 09:14 a/m
UPDATE 1-Olympics--Lausanne chosen as host city of 2020 Winter Youth Olympics

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KUALA LUMPUR, July 31 (Reuters) - Lausanne, the Swiss city
where the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is based, was
chosen on Friday to host the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics.
Lausanne easily won a secret ballot of IOC members at a
convention centre in downtown Kuala Lumpur, beating the only
other candidate, the Romanian city of Brasov, which hosted the
2013 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival.
Lausanne won the ballot in a landslide, collecting 71 votes
to 10.
"This year we are celebrating the 100-year anniversary of
the IOC's presence in Lausanne," IOC president Thomas Bach told
reporters.
"It is great we will now be able to continue this until
2020."
The Youth Olympics are restricted to athletes aged between
14-18, and 2020 will be the third edition of the initiative from
former IOC president Jacques Rogge to encourage more young
people to stay in sport.
The first Winter Youth Games were held at Innsbruck, Austria
in 2012 and Lillehammer, Norway will host the second edition
next year.
As part of their proposal, Lausanne's bidders said they
planned to stage some skiing events in neighbouring France,
embracing the IOC's new Agenda 2020 proposals encouraging
bidding cities to adopt more flexible and cheaper strategies.
Lausanne has bid for the Summer Olympics three times but
lost out on each occasion.
Swiss officials hinted that Lausanne could possibly bid the
for future Winter Olympics. Switzerland has hosted the Winter
Olympics twice before, in 1928 and 1948, both in St. Moritz.

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