2024 Winter Youth Olympics

2024 edition of the Winter Youth Olympics

The 2024 Winter Youth Olympics is officially known as the IV Winter Youth Olympic Games (French: Les IVème Jeux Olympiques de la jeunesse d'hiver; Korean: 제4회 동계 청소년 올림픽, romanized: Jesahoe Donggye Cheongsonyeon Ollimpik). The common name is Gangwon 2024. It will be the fourth edition of the Winter Youth Olympics. The Winter Youth Olympics is an international sports, education and cultural festival for teenagers. It will take place between 19 January and 2 February 2024 in Gangwon, South Korea. The host city was announced at the 135th IOC Session on 10 January 2020. The meeting is held at the SwissTech Convention Center in Lausanne, Switzerland. This was during the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics. [1]This is the first Olympic event with the new bidding process. This will also be the first Winter Youth Olympic Games to be held outside of Europe.[2]

IV Winter Youth Olympic Games
Host cityGangwon, South Korea
MottoLet's Make It Together (Korean: 같이합시다)
Opening19 January
Closing2 February
StadiumSCJ Olympic Stadium
Winter
Lausanne 2020 2028
Summer
Dakar 2026 2030

Bidding process

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Gangwon was the only preferred host. Other cities such as Brașov, Granada, and Sofia were interested to hold the competition but was not preferred. They held talks with IOC and the Future Host Commission.[3] Gangwon was officially chosen during 135th IOC Session in Lausanne, Switzerland on 10 January 2020.[4]

Host city selection

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Pyeongchang (in Gangwon) was chosen as host of the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics. This was announced on 10 January 2020 at the 135th IOC Session in Lausanne, Switzerland. The city meets all of the requirements set by the IOC and Executive Board.[5] 82 members were eligible to vote.

2024 Youth Olympic Games bidding results[4]
Party Nation Votes
Gangwon   South Korea 79
None of bid 2
Absentation 1
Total 82

Development and preparation

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Dragon Valley (Alpensia) Ski Resort

Most of the venues of the 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics will be used again. Most of the outdoor snow events will be held in the county of Pyeongchang. Some indoor ice events will be held in the nearby city of Gangneung. Wonsan city in North Korea will also hold some events after discussions with North Korea. Wonsan can possibly host some of the alpine events.[6][7]

Pyeongchang (mountain cluster)

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The Alpensia Sports Park in Daegwallyeong-myeon, Pyeongchang will be the main venue of the games.

There will be another outdoor venue at Bongpyeong-myeon, Pyeongchang:

One other venue for outdoor sports will be in neighboring Jeongseon county:

  • High1 Resort – alpine skiing (downhill, super-G, combined)

Gangneung (coastal cluster)

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Gangneung Olympic Park is located in the neighborhood of Gyo-dong. The neighbourhood is in Gangneung city. The park includes four indoor sports venues. All four venues are close to one another.

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References

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  1. "2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games awarded to South Korea's Gangwon - English.news.cn". Xinhua (in Latin). 2017-03-21. Archived from the original on 2020-02-13. Retrieved 2020-12-13.
  2. "Gangwon Province selected to host 2024 Winter Youth Olympics". English Edition (in Latin). 2020-01-20. Archived from the original on 2020-01-21. Retrieved 2020-12-13.
  3. Morgan, Liam (9 January 2019). "Russia expresses interest in hosting 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games". inside the games. Archived from the original on 2 October 2020. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  4. 4.0 4.1 "Gangwon 2024: legacy of PyeongChang 2018 lives on in first Winter Youth Olympic Games awarded to Asia". International Olympic Committee. 10 January 2019. Archived from the original on 21 September 2020. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  5. "South Korea set to host 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games with possible help from North Korea". insidethegames. 5 December 2019. Archived from the original on 6 December 2019. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  6. Yoo, Jee Ho (24 September 2019). "PyeongChang Winter Olympic facilities to be transformed to sports complex, cultural center". Yonhap. Archived from the original on 30 September 2019. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
  7. "Future Host Commission Report: 4th Winter Youth Olympics 2024" (PDF). International Olympic Committee. 10 January 2019. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 September 2020. Retrieved 3 November 2020.

Other websites

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Preceded by
Lausanne
Winter Youth Olympic Games
Gangwon

2024
Succeeded by
TBA


  Youth Olympic Games
Summer Games: Singapore 2010, Nanjing 2014, Buenos Aires 2018, Dakar 2026
Winter Games: Innsbruck 2012, Lillehammer 2016, Lausanne 2020, Gangwon 2024
Gangwon 2024Dakar 2026