The concept of the Youth Olympics is proposed by the president of the International Olympic Committee, Jacques Rogge in 2001 and was later approved on July 6, 2007.
The goal of YOG is to gather all the talented youth athletes to inculcate the Olympic values of Excellence, Friendship and Respect in them, so as to create an ideal sporting environment and keep the spirit going forever. They also hope to bring the sporting culture regionally and globally up to higher levels.
YOG pictograms, taken from: http://www.sgyoutholympics.com/2009/05/29/pictograms-of-the-singapore-youth-olympic-games-2010-sports/
The YOG is a scaled down version of the Olympics games which consists of 26 sports like 3-on-3 basketball, swimming, archery,aquatics, badminton, athletics, fencing, boxing, canoe-kayak, cycling, football,gymnastics,handball, hockey, judo, modern pentathlon, rowing, sailing, shooting, table tennis, taekwando, tennis, triathlon, volleyball, weight-lifting and wrestling.
The matches will be held island-wide, thus if you are interested in watching the games then, you can refer to the YOG website for further updates on the games and timing.
Reference:
http://www.olympic.org/en/content/Sports/
http://www.olympic.org/en/content/Olympism-in-Action/
http://www.singapore2010.sg/public/sg2010/en.html
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