V Winter Youth Olympic Games

Winter ← Gangwon 2024 2032 → Summer ← Dakar 2026 2030 →

The 2028 Winter Youth Olympics, officially known as the V Winter Youth Olympic Games will be the fifth edition of the Winter Youth Olympics, a youth winter multi-sport event, in a city designated by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Bidding process

The new IOC bidding process was approved at the 134th IOC Session in Lausanne, Switzerland. The key proposals driven by the relevant recommendations from Olympic Agenda 2020, are:^[1][2]

• Establish a permanent, ongoing dialogue to explore and create interest among cities/regions/countries and National Olympic Committees for any Olympic event
• Create two Future Host Commissions (Summer and Winter Games) to oversee interest in future Olympic events and report to the IOC executive board
• Give the IOC Session more influence by having non-EB members form part of the Future Host Commissions

IOC also modified the Olympic Charter to increase flexibility by removing the date of election from 7 years before the games, and changing the host as a city to multiple cities, regions, or countries.

Dialogue stages

According to Future Host Commission terms of reference with rules of conduct, the new IOC bidding system is divided to 2 dialogue stages are:^[3]

• Continuous Dialogue: Non-committal discussions between the IOC and Interested Parties (City/Region/Country/NOC interested in hosting) with regard to hosting future Olympic events.
• Targeted Dialogue: Targeted discussions with one or more Interested Parties (called Preferred Host(s)), as instructed by the IOC Executive Board. This follows a recommendation by the Future Host Commission as a result of Continuous Dialogue.

Timeline

• Future Summer Host Commission meeting (16–17 January 2020)

Interested parties

The following are interested bidding parties for the 2028 Winter Youth Olympics, one of which took part in targeted dialogue with the IOC and Future Host Commission:

Europe

• Lombardy and Trentino, Italy

In June 2023, the Italian regions of Lombardy and Trentino began continuous dialogue with the International Olympic Committee over hosting the Winter Youth Olympic Games in 2028.^[4] Milan in the region of Lombardy will host the 2026 Winter Olympics with Cortina d'Ampezzo, while Val di Fiemme in Trentino will host several events during those games as well.

• Sarajevo and East Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

On September 27, 2023, the Olympic Committee of Bosnia and Herzegovina president Izet Rađo announced that Bosnia and Herzegovina would prepare a bid to host the Youth Olympic Games in the future, though it was not specified whether they were pursuing either the Summer or Winter Youth Olympic Games.^[5] Sarajevo previously hosted the 1984 Winter Olympics and the 2019 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival.

Asia

• Beijing or Jilin or Heilongjiang, China