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2020 Winter Youth Olympics

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Host city
  
Lausanne

Nations participating
  
approx. 70

Events
  
70

Country
  
Switzerland

Athletes participating
  
approx. 1,100

Sports
  
15

The 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games (French: Les IIIe Jeux olympiques de la jeunesse d'hiver, German: Olympische Jugend-Winterspiele 2020, Italian: I Giochi olimpici giovanili invernali, Romansch: Gieus olimpics da giuvenils d'enviern 2020) will be the third edition of the Winter Youth Olympics; a major international multi-sport event and cultural festival for youths to be celebrated in 2020 in the tradition of the Olympic Games during the XXXII Olympiad.

Contents

Bidding

Bids were due by 28 November 2013, the candidates cites were selected on 5 December 2014 and Lausanne was elected host city on 31 July 2015.

Lausanne

  • Palais de Beaulieu - Figure skating, short track, curling
  • Stade Pierre de Coubertin - Opening and closing ceremonies, medal ceremonies
  • UNIL-EPFL Sport Centre - Speed skating
  • Centre intercommunal de glace de Malley - Ice hockey
  • Lausanne campus - Olympic village

    • Jura

  • PrĂ©manon, France - Ski jumping, Biathlon, Nordic Combined
  • Le Brassus - Cross-country Skiing

    • Alps

  • Leysin
  • Les Mosses
  • Les Diablerets
  • Villars-sur-Ollon

    • References

    2020 Winter Youth Olympics Wikipedia
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