USOC weighing Youth Olympics bid

September 02, 2010 11:55 AM

BRIAN GOMEZ
THE GAZETTE
The U.S. Olympic Committee is considering a bid for the Youth Olympics, with Raleigh-Durham, N.C., and Lake Placid, N.Y., possible contenders for the event that drew 3,500 athletes from 205 countries to Singapore last month at a cost of $287 million.
Lake Placid would be up for the 2016 or 2020 winter edition, and Raleigh-Durham would be aiming for the 2018 summer edition. The inaugural Youth Winter Games are in 2012 in Innsbruck, Austria, and the next Youth Summer Games are in 2014 in Nanjing, China.