Youth Olympic Games were further pared down to just Moscow and Singapore. Finally, on 21 February 2008, Singapore was declared host of the inaugural Youth Olympic Games 2010 via live telecast from Lausanne, Switzerland, winning by a tally of 53 votes to 44 for Moscow. On 2 September 2008 IOC announced that the executive board had shortlisted four cities among the candidates to host the first Winter Youth Olympic Games in 2012. The four candidate cities were Harbin, Innsbruck, Kuopio, and Lillehammer. IOC president Jacques Rogge appointed Pernilla Wiberg to chair the commission which analysed the projects. As with the Summer Games, the
Buenos Aires bid for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics Buenos Aires bid for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics Buenos Aires 2018 was the successful bid by the city of Buenos Aires and the Argentine Olympic Committee to host the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics. It was announced on August 30, 2011, that Buenos Aires would bid for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics. Buenos Aires 2018 announced in January 2012 that they had appointed Vero Communications to promote the bid. Argentine IOC Member and Argentine Olympic Committee head Gerardo Werthein as well as Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri wrote letters to IOC President Jacques Rogge in support of the bid. Buenos