OLYMPIC chiefs will discuss tomorrow whether to proceed with Glasgow's bid to host the Youth Games in 2018.
And if successful the city will find out 12 months before it stages the 2014 Commonwealth Games on whether thousands of athletes and spectators from across the globe will again descend on the city four years down the line.
The Herald revealed yesterday Glasgow had launched a bold bid to host the Youth Olympic Games, an event on the scale of the Commonwealth Games.
The city has been in communication with the British Olympic Association (BOA) and officially registered its interest to become only the third city to stage the event.
At a meeting of its board of directors in London tomorrow, the BOA will discuss whether it will proceed with a British bid for the Games and whether it believes Glasgow would be an appropriate host.
A spokeswoman said: “The British Olympic Association is currently evaluating whether or not to put forward a bid for the 2018 Youth Olympic Games. A decision has not yet been made, and we will be discussing this with our board of directors. We will only bring forward a bid if we believe the conditions for doing so are right and we have a candidate city that can be competitive internationally.
“Should we elect to proceed with a bid, we will of course conduct an evaluation of possible candidate cities from throughout the UK.”
According to the BOA, the deadline for National Olympic Councils to submit candidate cities’ bids for the 2018 Youth Olympic Games is March 1, 2012. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will then announce which host city has been selected in June 2013.
Correspondence seen by The Herald also requests the BOA make representations to the IOC and makes reference to “ongoing dialogue” between city authorities and the BOA on hosting the Games.
The letter from the leadership of Glasgow City Council to BOA chief executive Andy Hunt states that should its board agree to expressing an interest in the 2018 Games it “will give the opportunity for both Glasgow and other potential interested UK cities to develop their proposals further”.
The city had observers from Glasgow at the inaugural Youth Games last year in Singapore and believes that after the Commonwealth Games experience it will have the capacity to deliver another major event.
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