Moscow bids to host first Youth Olympics in 2010

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Moscow, Aug 20: Russia's Olympic Committee voted unanimously today to submit a bid to host the first Youth Summer Olympics in 2010.

It agreed to enter the Russian capital in the bidding process to stage the youth version of the world's greatest sporting spectacle, for athletes aged 14-18.

Moscow, which hosted the boycott-affected 1980 Summer Olympics, also staged the first Youth Games in 1998. They were held under the patronage of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), but did not carry the Olympic title.

The IOC approved a plan to stage summer and winter Youth Olympics to try to revive the dwindling interest of teenagers in the Olympic movement at its session in Guatemala last month.

In Guatemala, the IOC also awarded the 2014 Winter Olympics to Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi.

The IOC plans to name the Youth Olympics host city next February.

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Story first published: Thursday, August 24, 2017, 15:58 [IST]

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Moscow bids to host first Youth Olympics in 2010