Nanjing wins hosting right for 2nd Youth Olympics (updated-4)
VANCOUVER, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- Nanjing of China won the hosting right for the second Summer Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in 2014 here on Wednesday.
Nanjing won the vote by a narrow margin 47-42 over the only other candidate city Poznan of Poland.
The result was announced by International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge at the 122nd IOC session in Vancouver.
Talking about the close competition with Poznan, Zhu Shanlu, director of the Nanjing Bidding Committee said he felt nervous when seeing the narrow result.
"I had thought about another result, because I always knew how hard and fierce it was to compete with Poznan," said Zhua after the session.
Nanjing, the capital city of eastern China's Jiangsu Province and the ninth largest city in China, joined Mexico's Guadalajara and Poland's Poznan in the replica breitling running, before Guadalajara dropped out in January.
"We have a lot of things to do in the future, and we are ready to take the responsibility," Zhu said at the later press conference.
"Our city was very famous for its long history and the college education. We hope the Youth Olympic Games can boost the development of the physical education in China."
The 2014 Games is scheduled to take place over 12 days with up to 3,500 athletes aged 14-18 competing in as many as possible of the 26 official Olympic summer sports.
"We don't need to build new venues for the YOG, because we've already had high-level stadiums for the National Games five years ago, which are quite capable for the YOG. We don't have to waste money," Zhu said.
Nanjing, the host of the Chinese National Games in 2005, determined to use its existing venues, as Lace wigs 21 of the required 25 already in existence and in close proximity to the proposed site of the Olympic Village.
"The Olympic Village will be used as the rental apartment for the university graduates. We have a sustainable after-use plan for facilities of the YOG," he added.
"The IOC expect high quality of the YOG. Of course the standard of the YOG is not the same with the Olympic Games, so we don't need huge stadiums. Small venues can create better atmosphere for the youth," said IOC member Gilber Feili.
More than 97% of the
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According to the survey, 93.38% of the Nanjing residents will be willing to work as volunteers for the Games, and the percentage is particularly high (96.52%) among those below age 35.
With a population of approximately 7.4 million, the city's 117 million US dollars budget appeared to be consistent with the levels of service described in the candidature file and most key costs had been taken into consideration, according to the Evaluation Commission's report.
The vision of the YOG is to inspire young people around the world to participate in sports and adopt and live by the Olympic values.
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