Bids for the 2022 Summer Youth Olympics
There were a total of four bids which were initially submitted for the 2022 Summer Youth Olympics. In September 2018, the International Olympic Committee agreed to award the 2022 Summer Youth Olympics to the city of Dakar in Senegal. Dakar were officially awarded the Games at the 133rd IOC Session in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 8 October 2018. Bidding calendar. The IOC revealed the 2022 Summer Youth Olympics bid process on 29 March 2018. Final selection process. The IOC voted to select the host city of the 2022 Summer Youth Olympics on 8  October 2018 at the 133rd IOC Session in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Candidate cities. Cities in preparation stage. The following four cities have been participating in the preparation stage and joined the briefings via videoconference/conference call. Previously interested in bidding. The following cities initially explored the possibility of bidding but decided not to proceed to the preparation stage. In April 2016 the Monterrey City Olympic Foundation announced that the Mexican city will not be bidding for the 2023 Youth Olympic Games as had been originally planned. Monterrey bid for the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics and 2018 but both times the  Mexican Olympic Committee chose Guadalajara as a candidate. In 2015 Pang Chung, former secretary general of the Hong Kong Sports Federation & Olympic Committee (SF&OC) who is still an adviser to the body, stated that the 2023 Youth Olympics would be perfect for Hong Kong. He said that the 2009 East Asian Games showed the city can stage successful games and added: "If China wins the hosting rights for the 2022 Winter Olympics, we can also strengthen the impact of sport in the region by hosting the Youth Olympics the following year". Hong Kong has bid for the 2006 Asian Games  and failed to become a candidate for the 2022 Asian Games after lawmakers voted it down in 2010. The city will also hosted the 2022 Gay Games, after previously hosted the 2019 Asian Deaf Games, which later cancelled due to many protests. Preliminary talks over potentially hosting the YOG between IOC members and officials from the city took place at the 131st IOC Session. Budapest bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics but withdrew on March 1, 2017. Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov supported the proposal to hold the Youth Olympic Games in 2023 in Kazan. The meeting of the State  Duma on physical culture, sports, tourism and youth affairs took place in the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, also held the 2013 Summer Universiade. Die Linke party along with the Ecological Democratic Party (ODP) in Germany wrote a letter to Munich Mayor Dieter Reiter in February 2016 urging to investigate a possible bid for the Youth Olympic Games. Munich hosted the 1972 Summer Olympics. The Board of Aldermen of Rotterdam planned to do a feasibility study to see if the city would bid for the 2023 Youth Olympic Games. André Bolhuis, President of the Netherlands Olympic Committee said, "we  are pleased to have such an enthusiastic partner for this beautiful event as Rotterdam." Rotterdam bid for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics but failed to become a candidate.