Thursday, July 05, 2007

IOC approves Youth Olympics; first set for 2010 - Thursday July 5, 2007 4:52PM

SI.com - More Sports - IOC approves Youth Olympics; first set for 2010 - Olympic leaders voted Thursday to create a Youth Olympics meant to drag kids from computer screens and onto the playing fields. The first is planned for 2010 for 3,500 athletes, ages 14-18.

It would be the first major international sports festival created by the International Olympic Committee since the advent of the Winter Games in 1924. The program was approved unanimously by a show of hands.

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