Youth Games

2018 Youth Olympic Games

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is pleased to announce that six National Olympic Committees (NOCs) have submitted applications for Candidate Cities to host the 3rd Summer Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in 2018. These NOCs are, in alphabetical order: Argentina (Buenos Aires), Colombia (Medellan), Great Britain (Glasgow), Mexico (Guadalajara), Netherlands (Rotterdam) and Poland (Poznan). IOC President

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Innsbruck YOG

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge has paid tribute to the Organising Committee of the inaugural Winter Youth Olympic Games here by claiming the event “has exceeded all expectations”. The ten-day event, which officially ended tonight, has seen more than 1,000 athletes aged between 15 and 18 compete and has been a major success

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Youth Team homecoming

The Irish European Youth Olympic Team arrived home on Saturday morning to a great welcome for family and friends. (The seven medallists pictured L to R: Brian O’Sullivan (Swimming) and from Athletics: Megan Kiely, Ruairi Finnegan, Siofra Buttner, Ben Kiely, Sarah Lavin and Karl Griffin)       Irish Team Chef de Mission Tom Rafter

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EYOF Closing Ceremony

The Closing Ceremony of 11th European Youth Olympic Festival, will be held on this evening 29th of July. The EYOF 2011 Trabzon Coordination Group wil put on an fitting show for the young athletes , performance staff , family and friends. The Ceremony starts at 8.15 pm at Hüseyin Avni Aker Stadium.   Irish Team Chef de Mission

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Girls 4x 100m relay

Ireland qualified second fastest for this afternoons girls 4 x 100m relay  in a time of 47.36 They were placed 6th in the final but we have just heard that there was an technical infringment in one of the changeovers and they have been DQ’d. Whilst the girls will be dissapointed they showed tremenduos ability to

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