Bids for the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics 2014 host city was elected during the 2010 IOC session in Vancouver, prior to the 2010 Winter Olympics. This was the first election of a Youth Olympic Games host city held in an IOC Session. The elections for the host cities of the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics and 2012 Winter Youth Olympics were done through postal votes by IOC members. China bid for the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics with the city of Nanjing. Nanjing is located in East Central China along the Yangtze River. The IOC noted Nanjing had "the least risk" of the applicant cities. Poznań bid for the
Canoeing at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics Canoeing at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics Canoeing at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics is scheduled to be held between August 23 to August 27. The events will take place at the Nanjing Rowing-Canoeing School in Nanjing, China. There are four events in sprint and slalom each (K1 and C1 for both genders). All athletes qualifying for an event must compete in the same event in the other discipline (slalom or sprint) or risk disqualification. There were two events: the 2013 Junior Sprint World Championships in Welland, Ontario and the 2013 Junior slalom championship in Liptovsky Mikulas, Slovakia were quotas