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
2024 Winter Youth Olympics Sofia was going to bid for the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics but did not submit a bid citing that they did not fill the requirements set by the IOC. The Bulgarian Olympic Committee was also interested in the city potentially bidding for the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics but eventually declined. Before the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics, held in Buenos Aires, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach visited Ushuaia and talked about the possibility of holding the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics here. By the end of the games, Bach said: "We were very impressed with the facilities in Ushuaia and in