S’pore bids to host 2010 Youth Olympic Games
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The Games will comprise a summer and winter meet just like the main Olympics and targeting youngsters aged between 14 and 18.
According to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the purpose of the YOG is not to create a mini Olympic Games but to complement it.
An Evaluation Commission, under the guidance of the IOC, may visit the candidate cities between November and December this year before recommendations go before the IOC, which should make its decision by the end of February 2008.
The idea to organise the Youth Olympic Games was conceived in mid-2007 and approved by the IOC just last month.
The Summer and Winter Youth Games will alternate every four years, with the Summer events being staged in the years of the Olympic Winter Games and vice versa. The IOC estimates that there could be some 3,000 participants for the Summer YOG and 1,000 for the winter counterpart.
A multi-agency committee has been formed to prepare Singapore’s bid.
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