The 2024 Bolivarian Youth Games (), officially known as the I Bolivarian Youth Games "Sucre 2024" and simply known as Sucre 2024, will be the first edition of the Bolivarian Youth Games, a regional

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for athletes of up to 19 years old, organized by the Organización Deportiva Bolivariana (ODEBO). Originally scheduled to be held in

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, Bolivia from 17 April to 1 May 2020, the inaugural edition of the Bolivarian Youth Games underwent several postponements until it was definitively scheduled to be held from 4 to 14 April 2024.

Host city and date changes

ODEBO launched the Bolivarian Youth Games for the first time in 2010 with

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, Peru to be the host city of the first edition in 2015. In February 2015, the event was postponed in order to establish the age limit for athletes as well as the sports program and a new date for the Games. In July 2015, during its Extraordinary General Assembly, ODEBO moved the Games to 2016, keeping Lima as host city. In January 2016, ODEBO approved the age range for athletes following the same criteria as the

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for the

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, and the Games were moved to 2019. In 2017, the Games were again rescheduled, this time for 2020, and Peru resigned to host the Games, giving way to

, Bolivia being named as the new host city on 10 November 2017. Early 2019, the Games were scheduled to be held between 17 April and 1 May 2020, but were then rescheduled for 17–30 October 2020 due to the 2019 Bolivian protests, and later for 5–18 December 2020 due to the

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. In May 2020, ODEBO decided to reschedule the games from 24 April to 7 May 2021 and in December 2020 it rescheduled the event again, this time from 27 November to 9 December 2021 at the request of the Organizing Committee due to the health emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic prevailing at that time. In October 2021, the Games were postponed to 2022 due to lack of funding and to avoid a clash with the

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(25 November–5 December). In April 2022, ODEBO and Bolivian authorities reactivate the organization of the event, setting April 2023 as the new date for the Games. In August 2022, ODEBO's President Baltazar Medina confirmed the First Bolivarian Youth Games in Sucre from 30 November–9 December 2023 as new tentative dates, which were confirmed in January 2023. Finally, in April 2023, the Games were rescheduled for the last time to take place between 5 and 14 April 2024 in order to allow more time for the organization and to coincide with Sucre's bicentennial commemorative activities.

Venues

These are the venues confirmed to host the games: *Coliseo Municipal Max Toledo – Badminton. *Coliseo Jorge Revilla Aldana – 3x3 basketball, Table tennis and Volleyball. *Coliseo Universitario N° 1 – Boxing and Taekwondo. *Complejo de Raquetas Conrrado Moscoso – Basque pelota and Squash. *Complejo de Tenis La Madona – Tennis *Complejo Deportivo Garcilazo – Archery, Baseball5, Beach volleyball, Futsal, Handball and Cycling BMX racing. *Circuito Bolivariano El Rollo – Triathlon (cycling and running). *

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– Athletics, Karate, Racquetball, Weightlifting and Wrestling. *Piscina Bolivariana El Rollo – Swimming and Triathlon (swimming). *Poligimnasio Max Toledo – Artistic gymnastics, Fencing and Judo. *Sucre-Potosi route – Road cycling * – Mountain biking.

The Games

Participating National Olympic Committees

All 7 ODEBO's National Olympic Committees (NOCs) will participate in these games. Each NOC was able to enter a maximum of 200 athletes, with the exception of the host, which was entitled to enter up to 300 athletes. Numbers in brackets denote the number of athletes being sent to the Games. * * * * * * * Team ODEBO (1) *

Sports

The original 2020 games program proposed 25 sports in 31 disciplines. The final 2024 program feature 24 sports in 27 disciplines with the following changes regarding the original program:

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and

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were replaced by

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and

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while

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was removed from the program. ''Numbers in parentheses indicate the number of medal events to be contested in each sport/discipline.'' * * * * * * * * ** ** ** * * * ** * * * * * * * * * * * ** ** * * ** **

Schedule

The competition schedule is as follows:

Medal table

References

External links

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I Bolivarian Youth Games – 2020 Technical Information
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