Crunch time for Botswana's Youth Olympics bid

Friday, August 24, 2018

Botswana successfully hosted the 2014 Africa Youth Games

While local authorities are cagey with details about the progress of Botswana’s bid for the 4th Youth Olympic Games, time is ticking away with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) expected to trim the candidates from four to two by mid-September.

Africa will host its first Youth Olympics in 2022 and Botswana is in the running early on, but faces competition from Nigeria, Senegal and Tunisia. IOC is moving towards the final stages of assessing and evaluating information collected from the bid cities, such that in mid-September, the IOC may have trimmed to no more than two.

The bidding cities are Abuja (Nigeria), Dakar (Senegal), Gaborone (Botswana) and Tunis (Tunisia). The over 100 IOC members would, during their session in Buenos Aires on October 8th and 9th, elect the winner in a historic decision.

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Crunch time for Botswana's Youth Olympics bid

While local authorities are cagey with details about the progress of Botswana’s bid for the 4th Youth Olympic Games, time is ticking away with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) expected to trim the candidates from four to two by mid-September.