Everyone is surprised at what a success YOG turned out to be. It looks like the Youth Olympic Games are here to stay.
I’ve not heard of a single overage athlete scandal.
Better athletes will be coming to the next Youth Olympics, IOC president Jacques Rogge said Thursday. ..
The head of the U.S. Olympic Committee on Tuesday blamed scheduling conflicts for the Americans’ woeful performance in the inaugural Youth Olympics, where their gold medal tally is less than Hungary and Azerbaijan. …
The Youth Olympics, which closed Thursday, were dominated by China, which won 30 gold medals and 51 overall. Russia was second with 19 gold medals and South Korea was third with 11.
The United States won only four gold medals, and U.S. Olympic Committee chief executive Scott Blackmun said earlier this week that scheduling conflicts had kept some top American athletes from competing in Singapore.
The Youth Olympics featured 3,600 athletes aged 14 to 18 from 204 national Olympic committees competing in 26 sports. …
“These Youth Games have definitely exceeded vastly my highest expectations,” Rogge said. “I did not expect this level of perfection in organization. Hats off to Singapore for what they have done.”
The inaugural youth winter games will be held in Innsbruck, Austria, in 2012 and the summer games in Nanjing, China in 2014. Lillehammer, Norway, which hosted the 1994 Winter Olympics, is the only city that has expressed an interest in hosting the 2016 winter games, and has until November to submit a formal bid, the IOC said.
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“Better athletes will be coming to the next Youth Olympics, IOC president Jacques Rogge said Thursday. ”
So … what? Did he feel like this group wasn’t good enough?
From the article:
“IOC president Jacques Rogge said he was not concerned about the quality of the American team.
“Sure, certain swimmers are not present,” he said. “But this will not diminish the quality of the swimming events or the youth games. When people don’t participate, they are easily forgotten and they do not weigh on the success of the organization.”"
I don’t think people are going to be “easily forgotten” just because they went to a different competition. He seems kind of ticked off that folks might have chosen their national championships or a different international instead of the YOG.
I assume it’s all about the “issue” of the USA not really supporting this event. They will next time, I bet.
Will it go the way of the Goodwill Games? Wagers, anyone?
LOL Shergymrag, I’m sure the athletes present appreciated that.
it’s b—s—.
the “best” pre-”real” Olmpians?
Rick,
this is a cutting edge issue of ‘elite’ sports………..
I’m hereby forming a commitee to lobby the IOC for the follwing:
1. “Younger People’s Olympics”…………ages (?) 8-12
2. a really serios but buttkicking *R-E-A-L-L-Y Younger people’s Olympics” (proposed ages 5-8)
3. Hey Jacque (Roggue), do you know anything about how invested/involved/ (completely friggin’ nuts) most (i’m sure it’s true in rowing, but do you have any idea how crazy gymatncs) parents are?
How ’bout a “pre/Olympics/preschool OG?
isn’t that a grea idea?
if not, WHY not?
4. the IOC organizers, lets face it, are friggin pussies……….why not a neo or pre natal OGs?
“my embryo is studlier than your embryo and i can prove it on the INTERNATIONALLY sponsored IOC stage…?
4a/ rejoinder from at least one (hypothical) NOC:
“our zygote can kick your z——-’s…a—. Therefore, we desearve to get Rogge’s and Grandi’s “sponsorship” money………..
jeezus h. christ, i’m ;ooking forward to being lambasted by the blogs readership…..i suspect, distessingly, that the points of my issue shall remain unaddressed……………
Well Jim, I’d just like to point out that embryos and zygotes can not compete because there’s, like, no way to acurately measure their performances. Forget about figure skating, the whole games would be one big scandal.
Sher…..
LMAO…..THANK YOU!!!!!!
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