At 7.11pm, International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogges announced that the first Summer Youth Olympic Games in 2010 were awarded to the city of Singapore.
The news was broadcasted live via satelite link from Lausanne in Switzerland.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Minister for Defence and president of Singapore National Olympic Council Teo Chee Hean, Minister of Community Development, Youth and Sports Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Parliamentary Secretary (Community Development, Youth and Sports) Teo Ser Luck and Singapore's International Olympic Committee executive board member Ng Ser Miang celebrated the historic moment with the 5,000 Singaporeans and supporters.

The Bidding for the 2010 Youth Olympics Games began in August 2007. Nine cities presented their candidature files by 3 September 2007.
These cities were: Athens (Greece), Bangkok (Thailand), Debrecen (Hungary), Guatemala City (Guatemala), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Moscow (Russia), Poznan (Poland), Singapore (Singapore), and Turin (Italy).

A shortlist of five cities was announced on 19 November 2007. In January 2008, the short list was reduced from five to two, Moscow and Singapore.

When the result of the final postal tally was revealed, Singapore won the right to host the Games over Moscow in a tally of 53-44.

The 2010 Summer Youth Olympic Games (officially known as 1st Summer Youth Olympic Games) is the inaugural Youth Olympic Games, a major international sports and cultural festival to be celebrated in the tradition of the Summer Olympic Games from August 14 to August 26, 2010.

The Youth Olympic Games ? age group 14 to 18 - will bring together approximately 3,500 athletes and 875 officials in 2010. A total of 26 sports will be featured, for a total of 31 disciplines.

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong delivered a celebratory speech.

He hailed the win as a great honour and privilege for Singapore and every Singaporean.

For the first time, the Olympics flame would be in South-east Asia, and in Singapore. We would be the focus of a new era of sports development for Singapore, for Soth-east Asia, and for the Olympic movement.

We worked very hard for seven months. It was a national effort, but more than that, it was a people's effort.

We had 2 1/2 years to prepare for the Youth Olympic Games. It would be going to be challenging, but it would be going to be full of excitement and achievements.