The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced Tuesday the procedure it will follow to evaluate the five candidate cities short-listed Monday for the 2010 Youth Olympic Games.
The IOC said it will not travel to the five cities – Athens, Bangkok, Moscow, Singapore and Turin – but will offer each city the opportunity to formally present its bid by way of a video conference call.
Video conference calls are to last a maximum of one hour. The six members of the IOC Evaluation Commission will meet in Lausanne for the video conference with the choice of who to include on the city’s panel up to the bid committee/NOC, but could also include IOC members from the country, representatives of the bid committee/NOC, public authorities, government or experts.
The video conference call shall be structured in two parts – a 15-20 minute verbal presentation by the city to present its bid, followed by questions and answers.
The IOC Evaluation Commission will submit its report to the IOC Executive Board at the end of January and on the basis of this report the board will recommend which candidate cities will be submitted to the IOC members for election as host city.
Following a postal vote by all IOC members the host city for the 2010 Youth Olympic Games will be announced at the end of February.
Deadlines for the second phase of the 2010 Youth Olympic Games procedure are as follows – submission of detailed budget information November 30, submission of written comments on the Panel of Experts’ report, and submission of written answers to IOC Evaluation Commission questions by December 3, potential visit of a technical expert commissioned by the IOC December 3-9, video conference calls between the IOC and the Candidate Cities on December 13, Submission of Guarantees File 2 on December 18, report of the IOC Evaluation Commission at the end of January, recommendation by the IOC Executive Board of the cities to be submitted to the IOC Session for election as host city, and election by postal vote and announcement of the Host City in February 2008.
