On February 29, 2012 it was announced that Rotterdam would bid for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics[1] Rotterdam failed to become a Candidate City for the games when the IOC selected the Candidate cities on February 13, 2013.

[2] Buenos Aires was ultimately selected as the host city of the 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games on July 4, 2013.

[3] Amsterdam has made a total of six bids for the Summer Olympic Games.

They then bid for the 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics but lost to Antwerp and Paris respectively.

The city later went on to bid for the 1952 and 1992 Summer Olympics but lost to Helsinki and Barcelona respectively.