1948 Summer Olympics postal vote, gave the summer Games to London and the winter competition to St Moritz. London was selected ahead of Baltimore, Minneapolis, Lausanne, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia. London, which had previously hosted the 1908 Summer Olympics, became the second city to host the Olympics twice; Paris hosted the event in 1900 and 1924. London later became the first city to host the Olympics for a third time when the city hosted the 2012 Summer Olympics. Lord Burghley, a gold medal winner at the 1928 Olympics, member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and President of the Amateur Athletics Association was
Athletics at the 2015 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival Ukraine ranked third with three golds and two silver medals. In total athletes from thirty nations reached the podium at the competition. The host nation failed to appear on the medal table. Athletics at the 2015 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival The athletics competition at the 2015 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival was held at the Athletics Stadium of Tbilisi in Tbilisi, Georgia between 27 July and 1 August. A total of 36 events were contested, evenly divided between the sexes, repeating the programme of the previous edition. The competition was preceded the World Athletics Leaders Seminar, which included European