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IOC awards 2010 Youth Games to Singapore
Reuters
Published: Thursday, February 21, 2008
ATHENS (Reuters) - Singapore will host the first Youth Olympics in 2010 after the city-state won 53 out of 97 postal votes, International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge announced on Thursday.
The new event is designed to generate enthusiasm for the Olympic movement and the Games among the world's teenagers who in recent years have turned away from the Olympics in greater numbers raising the average age of Games' television viewers.
Singapore and Moscow were the only contenders for the event, which is Rogge's brainchild, from an initial field of 11 bidders.
Rogge read out the winner's name at a ceremony held inside the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Moscow won 44 votes.
Singapore will host the Games that will have about 3,200 athletes, aged 14-18, competing in 26 sports and will cost about $30 million.
Some 800 judges, referees and delegation officials for the summer editions will also be young people.
"This is a great honor for all of us," said Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at an outdoor rally of cheering Singaporeans dressed in the national color of red.
"We will be the focus of a new era of sports development. We worked hard to achieve the dream despite the odds."
Singapore has only won one Olympic medal since 1960 but has twice hosted the biennial Southeast Asian Games, with more athletes than the Youth Olympics, and will host them again in 2013.
(Additional reporting by Melanie Lee in Singapore)
(Writing by Karolos Grohmann, Editing by Jon Bramley and Ken Ferris)
Reuters 2008
http://www.canada.com/topics/sports/...37c036&k=47576
IOC awards 2010 Youth Games to Singapore
Reuters
Published: Thursday, February 21, 2008
ATHENS (Reuters) - Singapore will host the first Youth Olympics in 2010 after the city-state won 53 out of 97 postal votes, International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge announced on Thursday.
The new event is designed to generate enthusiasm for the Olympic movement and the Games among the world's teenagers who in recent years have turned away from the Olympics in greater numbers raising the average age of Games' television viewers.
Singapore and Moscow were the only contenders for the event, which is Rogge's brainchild, from an initial field of 11 bidders.
Rogge read out the winner's name at a ceremony held inside the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Moscow won 44 votes.
Singapore will host the Games that will have about 3,200 athletes, aged 14-18, competing in 26 sports and will cost about $30 million.
Some 800 judges, referees and delegation officials for the summer editions will also be young people.
"This is a great honor for all of us," said Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at an outdoor rally of cheering Singaporeans dressed in the national color of red.
"We will be the focus of a new era of sports development. We worked hard to achieve the dream despite the odds."
Singapore has only won one Olympic medal since 1960 but has twice hosted the biennial Southeast Asian Games, with more athletes than the Youth Olympics, and will host them again in 2013.
(Additional reporting by Melanie Lee in Singapore)
(Writing by Karolos Grohmann, Editing by Jon Bramley and Ken Ferris)
Reuters 2008