2020 Winter Youth Olympics

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XXIII Olympic Winter Games
File:2020 Winter Youth Olympics logo.svg
Host city Lausanne, Switzerland
Motto 'Start Now'
Events 81
Stadium Vaudoise Aréna

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The 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games (French: Les IIIes Jeux olympiques de la jeunesse d'hiver; German: Olympische Jugend-Winterspiele 2020; Italian: III Giochi olimpici giovanili invernali ; Romansh: Gieus olimpics da giuvenils d'enviern 2020), officially known as the III Winter Youth Olympic Games and commonly known as Lausanne 2020, was the third edition of the Winter Youth Olympics; a major international multi-sport event and cultural festival for teenagers was held in Lausanne, Switzerland, the home of the International Olympic Committee, between 9 and 22 January 2020.

Bidding process

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Further information: Bids for the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics

The bidding calendar was announced by the IOC on 6 June 2013, with the application deadline set for 28 November 2013.[1] Lausanne (Switzerland) and Brașov (Romania) were only two cities that submitted the bids and were selected as the final candidates.[2]

Host city selection

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Main article: 128th IOC Session

The IOC voted to select the host city of the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics on 31 July 2015 at the 128th IOC Session at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Lausanne was selected by 71 votes to 10, as it got at least 41 votes needed for a majority.[1][3]

2020 Winter Youth Olympics bidding results
City Nation Votes
Lausanne   Switzerland 71
Brașov  Romania 10

Venues

File:2020 Winter Youth Olympics opening ceremony 7.jpg
The opening ceremony in the Vaudoise Aréna.
File:2020-01-09 Media Tour Youth Olympic Village Lausanne (2020 Winter Youth Olympics) by Martin Rulsch 79.jpg
The circular "Vortex" building which houses the Olympic village on the Lausanne campus (it will later become a student residence).

Lausanne

Jura

Alps

The Games

Sports

The Youth Olympic Games will feature 8 sports and 16 disciplines. 81 events, there will be 13 mixed team events (NOCs), 34 men's events, and 34 women's events. Ski mountaineering and women's Nordic combined will feature for the first time in an Olympic event. A mixed-NOC 3-on-3 ice hockey tournament and a women's doubles event in luge will also be contested for the first time.[5]

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Participating National Olympic Committees

A total of 1,788 athletes from 79 nations qualified, the most for any edition of a Winter Youth Olympics.[6] 12 NOC's are scheduled to make their Winter Youth Olympics debuts: Albania, Azerbaijan, Ecuador, Haiti, Hong Kong, Kosovo, Pakistan, Qatar, Singapore, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, and Turkmenistan.[7] Haiti, Qatar and Turkmenistan have also never competed at the Winter Olympics.

Participating National Olympic Committees
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Number of athletes by National Olympic Committee

Calendar

All dates are CET (UTC+1)

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Medal table

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Main article: 2020 Winter Youth Olympics medal table

2020 Winter Youth Olympics medal table

Athlete Rolemodels

Sports Male Rolemodels Female Rolemodels
Alpine skiing pictogram.svg Alpine skiing Sandro Viletta (  Switzerland) Verena Stuffer ( Italy)
Biathlon pictogram.svg Biathlon Henrik L'Abée-Lund ( Norway) Marie-Laure Brunet ( France)
Bobsleigh pictogram.svg Bobsleigh – Jamie Greubel Poser ( United States)
Cross country skiing pictogram.svg Cross-country skiing Gianluca Cologna (  Switzerland) Maria Danou ( Greece)
Curling pictogram.svg Curling John Morris ( Canada) Marlene Albrecht (  Switzerland)
Figure skating pictogram.svg Figure skating Patrick Chan ( Canada) Sarah Meier-van Berkel (  Switzerland
Nathalie Péchalat ( France))
Freestyle skiing pictogram.svg Freestyle skiing – Hannah Kearney ( United States)
Ice hockey pictogram.svg Ice hockey Mark Streit (  Switzerland) Florence Schelling (  Switzerland)
Luge pictogram.svg Luge Gregory Carigiet (  Switzerland) Tatjana Hüfner ( Germany)
Nordic combined pictogram.svg Nordic combined – Tara Geraghty-Moats ( United States)
Short track speed skating pictogram.svg Short track speed skating Viktor Knoch ( Hungary) –
Skeleton pictogram.svg Skeleton Pascal Oswald (  Switzerland) –
Ski jumping pictogram.svg Ski jumping Jernej Damjan ( Slovenia) –
20px Ski mountaineering Yannick Ecoeur (  Switzerland) Ekaterina Osichkina ( Russia)
Snowboarding pictogram.svg Snowboarding Alex Deibold ( United States) –
Speed skating pictogram.svg Speed skating Livio Wenger (  Switzerland) Vanessa Herzog ( Austria)

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Records

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Main article: World Junior and Youth Olympic records set at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics

Opening Ceremony

The opening ceremony of the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games took place on the evening of Thursday 9 January 2020 at the Vaudoise Aréna, in Lausanne.[9]

Closing Ceremony

The closing ceremony of the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games took place on the evening of Thursday 22 January 2020 at the Medals Plaza Lausanne. The ceremony featured the flag handover from mayor of Lausanne Grégoire Junod to IOC President Thomas Bach and to the governor of Gangwon Choi Moon-soon as host of the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics and the extinguishing of the Youth Olympic flame.

Marketing

Mascot

File:Lausanne 2020 Torch Tour in Sarnen 09.jpg
Yodli, mascot of the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics.

Yodli the official mascot was unveiled on 8 January 2019 at CIG de Malley before match between Lausanne HC and HC Davos. Yodli is inspired by a combination of a cow, a Saint Bernard dog, and a goat, and was created by ERACOM. Blue represents the Swiss lakes. [10]

Colours

         Magenta, Sky Blue

Tickets

It was announced that all events apart from the opening ceremony would be free to watch in January 2020.[11]

Media coverage

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 IOC opens bids for 2022 Olympic Winter Games, YOG 2020 International Olympic Committee - 06/06/2013
  2. ↑ New horizons for Olympic Movement as Brasov and Lausanne bid for 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games - International Olympic Committee - 27/11/2013
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External links

Preceded by Winter Youth Olympic Games
Lausanne
2020		 Succeeded by
Gangwon Province

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