Jacques Rogge, President of the International Olympic Committee, announced via live web-cast Singapore as the host city of the first edition of the Youth Olympic Games to take place in 2010.Nine cities – Athens (Greece), Bangkok (Thailand), Debrecen (Hungary), Guatemala City (Guatemala), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Moscow (Russian Federation), Poznan (Poland), Singapore (Singapore) and Turin (Italy) – had applied to host the event. Moscow and Singapore were selected as the finalists by IOC’s panel of experts. The final choice was made by the IOC members who cast their vote via post over the last few weeks. Fifty-three of the 105 IOC members entitled to vote chose Singapore and 44...