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- The Youth Olympic Games (YOG) are an elite sporting event for young people from all over the world - but an event distinct from other youth sports competitions. The YOG also include a series of educational activities with three areas of focus: protecting the athletes, working on performance, and assisting the athletes outside sport.
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Another unique feature of the Youth Olympic Games is mixed-gender and mixed-national teams. Triathlon relays, fencing, table tennis, archery and mixed swimming relays are a few of the sports in which athletes from different nations and mixed genders can compete together. [8]
The Youth Olympic Games (YOG) are an elite sporting event for young people from all over the world - but an event distinct from other youth sports competitions. The YOG also include a series of educational activities with three areas of focus: protecting the athletes, working on performance, and assisting the athletes outside sport.
On top of the Olympic events, the Youth Olympic Games includes exciting new formats to make the world-class sporting action as engaging as possible – both for the young athletes taking part and those watching around the world.
Olympic Movement, the Youth Olympic Games are a catalyst for sporting, educational and cultural initiatives for young people. Main objectives of the YOG: 1. to bring together and celebrate the world’s best young athletes 2. to propose a unique and powerful introduction to Olympism 3. to innovate in educating and discussing the
Feb 14, 2008 · The Youth Olympic Games aim to bring together talented athletes – aged from 14 to 18 - from around the world to participate in high-level competitions, but also, alongside the sports element of the event, to run educational programmes on the Olympic values, the benefits of sport for a healthy lifestyle, the social values sport can deliver and ...
The YOG are for the world's young athletes aged from 15 to 18. Like the Olympic Games, they are held every four years, and are held in the same year as the OG with the Summer YOG taking place the same year as the Olympic Winter Games and vice-versa.
Athletes: 4,000 (2,000 girls and 2,000 boys) For the first time in Olympic history, the number of female and male athletes was the same. Events: 239, in 32 sports including 4 new sports: roller sports, dance sport, karate and sport climbing.
