What is Young NTUC doing to support the Youth Olympics?

[wilswong]

Cool next year can see CHIOBUs from all around the world in Singapore.. hehe must find out where they stay and try to make friends with them

Good luck.. haha..

Justin = cradle snatcher??

[harry]

He is a skirt chaser ... he will chase skirts

[poisonivy]

Justin like sweet young thing... Lai also ....

MEN ... they only go for what is between the legs of a woman

[wilswong]

Ivy...well...that much I have to agree...even though I am a man...that's why no one is perfect; therefore every one commits adultery in the mind.

On the other hand, a genuine sexual attraction towards one's spouse is normal so the very act of sex is in fact normal. Just that it is practised in the wrong context.

[Winz]

YOG will benefit Singapore ... the fact of the matter is that the international scene is already abuzz as to how Singapore managed to be the David and defeat the Golliath Russia...

So people knows abt this YOG... and they will come to watch... more pple come to watch better for our economy...

Now is only whether our people are cultured enough to play host... or will they all leave with a bad after taste in their mouth?

Agree....especially the last point.

Maybe the 2010 YOG committee can consider 'educating' our ppl to be more 'friendly' 1year before the YOG, like what the Beijing government has done for their coming Olympic Games.

[wilswong]

After courtesy campaign and SARS education, people are still spitting...even the younger ones!

I think there is really no policing at all!

I say hit the pockets and then they know what is cultured.

[greatknowledge]

Young NTUC Support Youth Olympic 2010!
http://picasaweb.google.com/youngntuc2/YOG

See if you can see ya face in our gallery

[greatknowledge]

*escape building being built next to Cathay Cineleisure Orchard [meant to be a hangout for youth to showcase their talents] will be involved in the YOG 2010 said MCYS Minister Vivian Balakrishnan at its ground breaking ceremony... guess we have to stay tuned for more news...

The upcoming *scape next to Orchard Cineleisure, expected to be completed by early 2010, will have a timely role to play in the Youth Olympics by showcasing local youth talent to visitors, added Dr Balakrishnan.

The $40 million five-storey building , which takes up 1.2 hectares, will house arts performance spaces, recording studios and the new Orchard branch of the National Library.

Full story: http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/STIStory_209947.html

[wilswong]

Why do we need so many excuses just to build something for the youth? Why don't just build it because we care for our youths?

Justification to use the money wisely do not need a huge excuse to do so.

Does that mean that we need a great reason to build anything good for the community?

*I am still looking at Punggol...still nothing is moving after the election promise*

[greatknowledge]

In case u missed out on this report.....

ATHENS, Feb 21 (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.

Wild celebrations erupted in Singapore immediately after the announcement with more than 6,000 people watching Rogge on outdoor TV screens pull out the winner's name from an envelope.

The new event, which is Rogge's brainchild, is designed to generate enthusiasm among the world's teenagers who in recent years have turned away from the Games in greater numbers raising the average age of Olympics' television viewers.#

Rogge read out the winner's name at a ceremony held inside the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland.

"This is a key moment for the Olympic Movement", Rogge told reporters. "Singapore has put together a very exciting project.

"Hosting the Youth Olympic Games for the first time is a great responsibility, and I have every confidence in the team in Singapore."


MOSCOW DISAPPOINTED

Moscow won 44 votes and Alexander Chernov, director of the losing bid, said that although he was disappointed he did not think the voting was political.

"Probably the majority of the IOC members thought giving two Olympics to one country in such a short time would be too much," he told Reuters.

Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi was last year chosen to host the 2014 Winter Games.

Singapore will host a Youth 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 honour for all of us," said Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at an outdoor rally of cheering Singaporeans dressed in the national colour 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.

"I'm a bit surprised and very excited because it is a chance for people from all over the world to gather in Singapore and see what we have to offer," said Rafiuddian Sawal, a student who dressed as an ancient Greek soldier to commemorate the event.

(Additional reporting by Melanie Lee in Singapore and Gennady Fyodorov in Moscow) (Writing by Karolos Grohmann, editing by Jon Bramley and Ken Ferris)

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/news?slug=reu-youth&prov=reuters&type=lgns