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The Summer Olympics are the world's largest multi-sport event, and are organized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) every four years. Selection of the host city is done at an IOC Session four to seven years prior to the tournament, in which the IOC members vote between candidate cities which have submitted bids.
Hungary has had the most bids in the Summer Games that have failed to win the rights to host the games at least once, with six bids—all from Budapest. This also ties it with Turkey for most bids for Olympic Games in general without a successful bid (Turkey has bid for the Summer Games five times and the Winter Games once).
The IOC received bids from two cities to host the 125th Session: the Argentine capital Buenos Aires and the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur made bids. Buenos Aires was elected at the 122nd IOC Session in Vancouver which took place prior to the 2010 Winter Olympics.
The following is a list of bids for the Summer Youth Olympics, sorted by year. It consists of the year the games were held or scheduled to be held, the date the decision was made, the city and country which issued the bid, and the result of the bid parties. The bid listed first for each games is the one selected by the IOC.
The Argentine Olympic Committee or COA (Spanish: Comité Olímpico Argentino - COA) is the National Olympic Committee representing Argentina's athletes in the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the Pan American Games and the South American Games.
The IOC members voted to keep Cape Town in the election as the IOC went to the next round of voting. Buenos Aires bid for the 1968 Summer Olympics but lost to Mexico City. Buenos Aires bid to host the 1956 Summer Olympics but lost to Melbourne by only one vote. The city's first bid was for the 1936 Summer Olympics which it lost to Berlin.
The 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics start exactly two years from Tuesday and it still seems like there are more questions than answers for a complicated games that will be staged across a large swath ...
The 2018 Summer Youth Olympics (Spanish: Juegos Olímpicos de la Juventud de 2018), officially known as the III Summer Youth Olympic Games, and commonly known as Buenos Aires 2018, were an international sports, cultural, and educational event held from 6 to 18 October 2018 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. They were the first Youth Olympic Games held ...