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I The European Games were a multisports event for European athletes. They were held in Minsk, Belarus, from 21 to 30 June 2019.

Assignment

First assignment
In November 2014, the president of the European Olympic Committee Pat Hickey began a series of negotiations with six potential host cities that were unknown until 16 May 2014, when COE appointed the Netherlands Olympic Committee as host city
The Netherlands had initially thought of making competitions throughout the country by engaging the cities of Amsterdam, Almere, The Hague, Eindhoven, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Apeldoorn, Arnhem and Assen, with a budget of $125 million. The project of the creation of low-cost games did not foresee the creation of new structures, or at least an Olympic village as athletes would be housed in the various cities, depending on their discipline.
If the European Athletic Association had offered more events than the previous edition, the organizing committee would have restructured the Olympian Stadion, or the headquarters of the opening and closing ceremonies.
The 2019 games had to mark the debut of skateboards and roller skating and the initial project provided from 12 to 15 sports.
On 12 June 2015, however, just before the opening of the European Games, the Netherlands announced that they would no longer host European games for financial reasons.

Second assignment
Following the renunciation, many cities expressed their interest in hosting the exhibition. In November 2015, the COE provided the Games to the Russian Olympic Committee, although the decision was to be confirmed and depended on the Doping scandals that emerged in Russia the same year. The cities awarded by the organizing committee were Kazan, who had already hosted the XXVII Universiade and Soči, the city where the XXII Winter Olympics took place. During the XXXI Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the CIO announced that, following the WADA report and the state doping that was carried out in Russia, it would not support any sporting event that would be held in the country. Following this, COE announced that Russia would no longer host European games.

Third assignment
In October 2016 the COE, after some negotiations, assigned the II European Games to the capital of Belarus, Minsk.

Games

Race seats
The races were hosted in eleven different locations. The athletic and cycling races on the road were held in the center of the city of Minsk.

Disciplines
On December 22, 2016 the European Athletics Federation announced the inclusion of athletics in the Games with a new innovative format. On 18 April 2017 the vice-president of the Belarusian Olympic Committee Maksim Ryzhenkov announced on a live television a list