Youth Olympics

Fact of the day

Yoshinori Sakai, who lit the Olympic Flame at Tokyo in 1964, was born in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, the day an atomic bomb was dropped on that city. 

Youth Olympics News

ITU reps visit Nanjing ahead of 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

By David Gold

Nanjing-site-visit-April2012April 28 - International Triathlon Union (ITU) representatives are in Nanjing on their first site visit ahead of the Summer Youth Olympics in 2014.
   

Glasgow 2018 Youth Olympic bid team hail "valuable" workshop at IOC headquarters

By Tom Degun

ioc headquarters_12-04-12April 12 - The Glasgow 2018 Youth Olympic Games bid team have praised a special two-day workshop at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) headquarters in Lausanne, which was designed to provide further information for the six Applicant Cities.
   

Nanjing 2014 launches global search for Opening and Closing Ceremony proposals

By David Gold

Nanjing 2014_hold_ceremony_to_find_proposals_for_opening_and_closing_April_2012April 9 - A ceremony to launch the global search for Opening and Closing Ceremony proposals for the 2014 Youth Summer Olympics in Nanjing has taken place.
   

Buenos Aires honoured to bid for 2018 Youth Olympic Games says Werthein

By Tom Degun

March 17 -Gerardo Werthein_in_front_of_London_2012_logo Gerardo Werthein, President of the Argentine Olympic Committee (COA), said that Buenos Aires is honoured to bid for the 2018 Youth Olympic Games and that the city can become a valuable partner of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) should their bid prove successful.
   

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