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2018 Summer Youth Olympics
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Medellín, Colombia
The IOC will elect the host city on 4 July 2013 in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Frank Kugler won four Olympics medals in freestyle wrestling, weightlifting and tug of war at St Louis in 1904, making him the only competitor to win a medal in three different sports at the same Games. He claimed a silver medal in the heavyweight category in wrestling, bronze in the two hand lift and all-around dumbbell events in weightlifting and another bronze in the tug of war competition as a member of Southwest Turnverein of Saint Louis No. 2 team. He is recognised as an American by the International Olympic Committee although he was a German national at the time of the Games.
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Summer Youth Olympics 2018
Glasgow to invest £80 million in local children to boost 2018 Youth Olympic Games bid
By Emily Goddard
January 18 - Glasgow is to invest £80 million ($127 million/€96 million) in the city's young people and the proposed 2018 Youth Olympic Village site as it works to boost its bid for the Games in five years' time.
January 18 - Glasgow is to invest £80 million ($127 million/€96 million) in the city's young people and the proposed 2018 Youth Olympic Village site as it works to boost its bid for the Games in five years' time.Buenos Aires promotes 2018 Youth Olympics bid with citywide cultural events
By Emily Goddard
January 16 - Buenos Aires 2018 has got the New Year underway with a series of special cultural events, which are attracting hundreds of thousands of local people to the Argentinean capital.
January 16 - Buenos Aires 2018 has got the New Year underway with a series of special cultural events, which are attracting hundreds of thousands of local people to the Argentinean capital.Medellín uses sports festival to promote bid for 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games
By Emily Goddard
January 14 - Medellín 2018 has opened the 2013 Festival of Festivals with more than 2,500 young Colombian athletes competing in athletics, basketball, baseball, football, swimming, table tennis and volleyball during the two-week multisport event.
January 14 - Medellín 2018 has opened the 2013 Festival of Festivals with more than 2,500 young Colombian athletes competing in athletics, basketball, baseball, football, swimming, table tennis and volleyball during the two-week multisport event.Former tennis world number one Roddick backs Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic bid
By Tom Degun
January 7 - Retired American tennis star Andy Roddick, the former world number one and US Open champion, has backed the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games bid during a visit to the Argentinean capital.
January 7 - Retired American tennis star Andy Roddick, the former world number one and US Open champion, has backed the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games bid during a visit to the Argentinean capital.Exclusive: London 2012 showed the UK can deliver great events, says Glasgow 2018 leader
By Tom Degun
January 4 - Paul Bush, the leader of the Glasgow 2018 Youth Olympic Games bid, believes the city is now in a strong position to secure the prestigious competition following the huge success of the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.
January 4 - Paul Bush, the leader of the Glasgow 2018 Youth Olympic Games bid, believes the city is now in a strong position to secure the prestigious competition following the huge success of the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.Glasgow 2018 unveil plans for Summer Youth Olympic Games bid
By Duncan Mackay
December 17 - Hosting the 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games would be an "historic opportunity" to build upon the legacy programme of London 2012, British Olympic Association (BOA) chairman Sebastian Coe claimed today.
December 17 - Hosting the 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games would be an "historic opportunity" to build upon the legacy programme of London 2012, British Olympic Association (BOA) chairman Sebastian Coe claimed today. Glasgow Youth Olympics could discover the next Andy, says Judy Murray
By Emily Goddard
November 27 - British tennis coach Judy Murray has thrown her support behind Glasgow's bid to host the 2018 Youth Olympic Games saying it will be "a phenomenal source of inspiration for young people" to emulate the success of the nation's greatest Olympians, such as that of her son Andy.
November 27 - British tennis coach Judy Murray has thrown her support behind Glasgow's bid to host the 2018 Youth Olympic Games saying it will be "a phenomenal source of inspiration for young people" to emulate the success of the nation's greatest Olympians, such as that of her son Andy.Buenos Aires unveil September plans for 2018 Youth Olympic Games bid
By Tom Degun
October 19 - Buenos Aires has today unveiled their plans for the 2018 Youth Olympic Games, with the event in the Argentinian capital scheduled to take place from September 11-23.
October 19 - Buenos Aires has today unveiled their plans for the 2018 Youth Olympic Games, with the event in the Argentinian capital scheduled to take place from September 11-23.IOC confirms five bidders for 2018 Youth Olympic Games
By Tom Degun
October 16 - Buenos Aires, Glasgow, Guadalajara, Medellín and Rotterdam will fight it out to host the 2018 Youth Olympic Games after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed it received the Candidature Files of all five bid cities by the deadline of October 15.
October 16 - Buenos Aires, Glasgow, Guadalajara, Medellín and Rotterdam will fight it out to host the 2018 Youth Olympic Games after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed it received the Candidature Files of all five bid cities by the deadline of October 15.More stories
- Medellín submits Candidature File for 2018 Youth Olympic Games on deadline day
- Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic bid gets Government guarantees but dates remain unclear
- Glasgow 2018 delivers Youth Olympic Games Candidate File with strong UK backing
- Poznań drops out of race to host 2018 Youth Olympic Games
- Bokel to lead evaluation of 2018 Youth Olympic Games bidders
- Guadalajara confident of paying off 2011 Pan American Games debt
- Medellín receive Government guarantees for 2018 Youth Olympic bid
- London 2012 medallist Jamieson backs Glasgow 2018 Youth Olympics bid
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