Youth Olympic Games
Summer: Winter: Youth Olympic Games is an international multi-sport event for athletes aged 15 to 18 years old.
[11] Exceptions to this building moratorium include a media centre, amphitheatre facilities for classes and workshops, and a village for coaches and athletes.
[15] The IOC will pay travel costs to the host city and room and board for the athletes and judges, estimated at $11 million.
The budgets for the final two bids for the inaugural Summer Games as submitted by the IOC came in at $90 million, much higher than the estimated costs.
[16] The budget for the inaugural Winter Games to be held in Innsbruck has been estimated at $22.5 million, which does not include infrastructure improvements and venue construction.
Most team sports use versions with reduced team sizes, including replacing regular basketball with 3x3 basketball, football with futsal, handball with beach handball, field hockey with hockey5s, indoor volleyball with beach volleyball, and, in 2026, baseball with baseball5.
The 2026 edition will mark the first time the summer youth program has an equal number of events for boys and girls.
[22] Unlike the traditional Games, it is up to the Organizing Committee to choose which disciplines will be chosen to be played in collective sports.
The Organizing Committee for the 2014 Games, chose beach volleyball (replacing their indoor counterpart) and field hockey as optional sport.
Skateboarding, Sports Climbing, Inline Speed Skating, and Wushu were demonstrated at the 2014 games and included in subsequent editions.
Not only does the education/culture aspect apply to athletes and participants, but also youth around the world and inhabitants of the host city and surrounding regions.
Local students from Singapore made booths at the World Culture Village that represented each of the 205 participating National Olympic Committee.
Young Reporters, between the ages of 18 and 24, are selected by the Continental Associations of National Olympic Committees and will represent each of the five continents.
Acting as mentors to help support and advise young Olympians are the Athlete Role Models, who are typically active or recently retired Olympians nominated by the IFs, such as Japanese wrestler Kaori Icho,[31] Italian Simone Farina[32] and Namibian Frank Fredericks.
[8] YOG organizers are also using social media such as Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter as key platforms for engaging young athletes before, during, and after each celebration of the Games.
[28] In early November 2007, Athens, Bangkok, Singapore, Moscow, and Turin were selected by the IOC as the five candidate cities to host the inaugural Youth Olympic Games.
Finally, on 21 February 2008, Singapore was declared host of the inaugural Youth Olympic Games 2010 via live telecast from Lausanne, Switzerland, winning by a tally of 53 votes to 44 for Moscow.
[35] On 2 September 2008, IOC announced that the executive board had shortlisted four cities among the candidates to host the first Winter Youth Olympic Games in 2012.
[36] IOC president Jacques Rogge appointed Pernilla Wiberg to chair the commission which analysed the projects.
