Resources
| Overview | |
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| Games of the I Youth Olympiad | |
| Winner: Singapore Runner-up: Moscow Shortlist: Athens · Bangkok · Turin | |
| Details | |
| City | Turin |
| NOC | Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) |
| Previous Games hosted | |
| 2006 Winter Olympics | |
| Decision | |
| Result | Eliminated from the shortlist in January 2008 |
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| 2010 Summer Youth Olympics |
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The Turin bid for the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics was an unsuccessful campaign to host the inaugural Youth Olympic Games (YOG). The Italian city announced its bid on Date, which was later recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Date. The IOC shortlisted Turin with four of the nine applicant cities — Athens, Bangkok, Moscow, Singapore, and Turin; over Debrecen, Guatemala City, Kuala Lumpur, and Poznan — on November 8, 2007 in Lausanne, Switzerland. A subsequent report in January 2008 placed Moscow and Singapore as contenders for the bid, eliminating the three other cities — Turin included — from the shortlist; Singapore was later announced as the host city on 21 February 2008.
Turin had organised the 2006 Winter Olympic Games just years earlier.
Candidature process
editIn October 2007, nine cities submitted their candidature files for the inaugural YOG in 2010: Athens, Debrecen, Guatemala City, Kuala Lumpur, Moscow, Poznan, Singapore and Turin.[1]
Evaluation
editTurin was noted as one of the early favourites to win the bid along with Moscow and Athens, arising from their experience in hosting the Olympics.
It was however concerns over the planned brand new facility for the Youth Olympic Village (YOV) which dragged down the city's score in the evaluation by the IOC's panel of experts.
Candidature concept
editHaving hosted the 2006 Winter Olympic Games just four years prior to the scheduled games, Turin had recent experience in hosting such events.
Candidature project
editAccomodation
editTurin proposed the YOV be housed at a new housing complex then being built. Construction at the Parco Colonnetti was scheduled to begin in April 2008 and finish by April 2010. It was underlined that the time factor was of concern to the IOC, with the risk involved in finish the pivotal project by the time of the games. Information about the layout of the actual apartments were lacking, and it was believed that the plan was to turn the living rooms in the apartment into triple bedrooms. Subsequently, Turin's Youth Olympic Village concept received a ranking between 4 and 5 on the 10-point scale in the IOC's report.
Following the poor scoring in the report, the city came up with two other housing ideas: the YOV would be located in the suburb of Villaggio Settimo, or accomodation would be provided in the University of Turin's dormitories (right uni or not?). Eventually, the bid committee settled for the original idea of housing the YOV at the Parco Colonnetti, arguing that it would be closest to the games venues. At the same time, it would be adjacent to a park that had extensive training facilities. It was also clarified that the athletes would be bedded in triple-occupancy bedrooms but not in the apartments' living rooms.
Financing
editA budget of US$112 million was proposed to host the games. Around 38 percent of the revenue would be subsidised by the national government, with another 23 percent coming from domestic sponsorships and supplier agreements. The revenue plan received a scoring between 4 and 6 in the evaluation by the IOC, which noted the challenge of collecting $28 million (23 percent) from the domestic sponsorships and supplier agreements. It also wrote that the city "could reduce certain cost line items to reduce revenue needs", althought the items in question was not specified.
The largest expenditures of the city's budget would come from workforce costs, at approximately $16 million; accommodations, at $14 million; and the opening and closing ceremonies, at over $11 million.
Venues
editMost of the proposed venues of the Games lay within Turin's public transport network, which significantly expanded from the 2006 Winter Olympics. An additional 4 km of subway line would be laid to link the Oval Lingotto to the rest of the system. A number of venues used in the 2006 games would be used, including the Oval Lingotto, the Palasport Olimpico, and the Stadio del Ghiaccio Tazzoli, some of which required refurbishing. Only the venues for the canoeing, rowing, and sailing event cluster were located outside the city, 90 km away on Lake Viverone. In its evaluation, the IOC's panel of experts gave the venues a rating between 6.5 to 8 on quality.
The Oval Lingotto would host the handball, fencing, table tennis and modern pentathlon events.
Turin was well-linked by its main airport, Turin Airport, located north of the city about 13 km from downtown and connected to the city by a railway service and a bus service. Malpensa Airport, a major airline hub in nearby Milan also had major air connections, as noted in the IOC report.
Culture and education
editCultural outreach was sketeched out by the IOC as one of the principal activities of the Youth Olympic Games when it was set up. Turin proposed an extensive online presence as a method to reach out to youth from across the world. The proposed website would have places for chatting and user-generated content, amongst other interactive features. A contest to help design certain aspects of the event would receive the participation of invited young musicians, visual artists and writers. Cultural competitions, as well as free youth passes to Turin's cultural and sports centres, were proposed. These plans received a scoring between 5 to 7 by the IOC, which noted that the education aspect of the plan had too much emphasis on Italian youths rather athletes.
References
editExternal links
edit- Official documents
- Report of the IOC Evaluation Commission (PDF). Lausanne, Switzerland: IOC. January 2008.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - Report of the IOC Panel of Experts (PDF). Lausanne, Switzerland: IOC. November 8, 2007.
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