The true meaning of “Games” is exact “competition”, but for “Olympic Games”, we have three values: Excellence, Friendship and Respect. In order to teach youths more about these three values, Singapore Youth Olympic Games will be not only one competition, but also lots of galore events.

There are two groups of events, “Pre-Games” and “During the Games”, now I will introduce them to you respectively.

Pre-Games

• Friends@YOG: Learn more about the over 190 countries taking part in the Youth Olympic Games and make friends with the world.
• Olympic Education Programme for Schools: Find out about the Olympic Movement and Youth Olympic Games.
• Olympic Youth Camp: Youths from Singapore and various NOCs get together to build friendships and learn about Olypism.
• International Sports Conference: A four-day “Youth in Physical Education & Sport” conference for educators, academics and young people.
• Constituency Sports Week: Know more about sports. Better still, take up a new sport!
• National Family Celebrations: An annual campaign that promotes family bonding and increase awareness of Singapore 2010 through sports activities.
• Arts and Culture: A series of exciting festivals, performances and activities celebrating young talents.

During the Games

• Athletes Education Programme: Learn through talks, dialogues, workshops, activity-based sessions, adventure, community-involvement projects and world-culture booths.
• Spectator Programme: A fun programme of talks, games and interactive displays for you to participate in.
• Art and Culture: Athletes, spectators and the public get to celebrate and be inspired by the spirit of Olympism through arts and cultural activities brought to them at the selected competition venues, the Youth Olympic Village, and throughout the city.
• Singapore 2010 Websites: Fun and interactive digital media platforms.

With all these interesting activities and events, Singapore Youth Olympic Games will not only be competitions, but also be a big International project for education.

An officer from Singapore Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee invited Li Zitong and me to take a tour in Youth Olympic Games Learning Centre. We went there yesterday, got a good experience and took lots of photos.

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Despite being a small country with only a land area of only 710 km2 and a multi-racial community of merely 4.8 million people, Singapore has edged past several first-world cities to win the bid of hosting the first ever Youth Olympic Games (YOG). Held from 14 to 26 August in 2010, over 3,500 athletes between the ages of 14 and 18 coming from 170 nations around the world will participate in this sporting event. The five candidate cities who have bid for the inaugural games and are shortlisted includes Athens, Bangkok, Moscow, Turin and last but not least Singapore. The main objective of the YOG is to bring together talented athletes from across the world with the aim of having them take part in high-level competitions and indicating to them the path to take to become real Olympians.

The idea for such an event was envisioned in 2001 by International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge. On July 6, 2007, IOC members at the 119th IOC session in Guatemala City approved the creation of a youth version of the Olympic Games. Just like the world-class sporting event – the Summer/Winter Olympic Games, the YOG will be held every four years with the first Summer YOG to be held in Singapore in 2010 and the first Winter YOG to be held in Innsbruck, Austria in 2012. The Singapore YOG 2010 will feature 26 sports, including popular ones such as Athletics, Badminton, Basketball, Sailing and Table Tennis. Read the rest of this entry »

Designed and created by two young technology geeks and professional bloggers from Maris Stella High School, Singapore, WeLoveYOG is a blog aimed to celebrate Singapore’s first Youth Olympic Games (YOG) which will be held here from 14 to 26 August next year. Zhou Tong (a 14-year-old) and Xavier (a 15-year-old) are participating in a blogging competition organized by the Singapore Polytechnic and YOG committee. Through this blog, we will share our valuable thoughts and opinions by writing articles frequently and publishing media content to promote the YOG.

Our goal is to hit the 50,000 visitors mark by the end of the competition (September 2009) and we intend to make use the power of Twitter to spread the word of mouth of WeLoveYOG. There are several ways you can support us.

• Follow us on Twitter – >> @WeLoveYOG <<
• Subscribe our RSS feed – >> RSS of Entries <<
• Tell your friends about WeLoveYOG
• Send feedback to weloveyog@gmail.com (Our official email address)
• Join us and write together -> Send an email to us now

If you have done any one of the above, we would like to thank you for the great support! Read the rest of this entry »

We are a bunch of students participating in the Singapore 2010 Blogging Competition in celebration of the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games. We are quite pleased that the first Youth Olympic Games is held in Singapore, so we created this blog and attempt to let more people (especially foreigners) to know more about this event.

You have lots of methods to support us, let me show you a few:

• Follow us on Twitter – >> @WeLoveYOG <<
• Subscribe our RSS feed – >> RSS of Entries <<
• Send feedback to weloveyog@gmail.com (Our official email address)
• Join us and write together -> Send an email to us now

Thanks for visiting us, now we are trying our best to update this blog frequently, don’t forget to support youths like us!