Youth Olympic Games

Singapore doing what it does best.
Bringing itself to the world.

This time, by hosting the inaugural
Youth Olympic Games.

Ppl have been telling me
we're gonna have to pay more taxes for the preparation
of this whole international event.
Stadiums, and facilities and such.

Well that's not exactly true.
The truth is, most of the facilities are already done.
They just require touching up
to meet certain standards.

Even so, the Olympic Committee had already
stressed that the main goal of these games
is not competition,
but education based on Olympic Values.
The host city need not build new venues and such.

So yeah, Singapore wont be building
big big stadiums that will all turn out to be
white elephants after the games.

Aziz's notes: Singapore really went against the odds here,
bidding against cities such as Moscow, Athens and Turin
that have all hosted an Olympic Games before.
There were also worries about Singapore's Olympic Village plan,
which obviously lost out to Moscow's
cuz they already have one.
But in the end, Singapore's vision of the games,
matched the IOC's idea of how it should be.
By putting up the idea of sports intertwined
with educational and cultural programmes,
with an emphasis on "compactness"
Singapore is really going to host
the Youth Olympic Games now.

Another note: The Sports Hub is slated to be
completed in 2011 and is NOT part of the
YOG plan.

Here's to an exciting 2010
(3rd year poly)


this video tells u all u need to know about it