Summer Youth Olympic Games 2026

[Olympian1010 7,989]

28 minutes ago, dcro said:

You forgot to mention that "try to qualify" in this particular case meant sharing a video on tiktok.

An innovative format. Literally anyone could qualify. People could also view all qualification entries and choose their favorites (not that it had much weight on selection, but it got the individual athletes more attention). 

 

Also, it wasn’t TikTok. It was a platform created by the WDSF.

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4 minutes ago, intoronto said:

So if Dakar was moved 4 years, I would suspect the plan is still to have 2022 or even 2023 Youth Olympics. 10 bucks it will be either Qatar or China hosting the event 

Let’s not forget about Colombia either.

[Federer91 2,810]

1 hour ago, dcro said:

I'll never understand how YOG ever gets any following anyway. IOC is basically just milking their name and status to sell more of their brand.

 

Youth Olympic Games are neither a proper Olympic nor youth event.

Pretty much this. It's unfortunate that the 2022 edition is probably cancelled, but let's not kid ourselves of how significant this is.

 

Everything was perfectly normal when there were no YOG at all. It's not the be all, end all for these kids. 

 

I don't think competing at the YOG will decide if these athletes will have a sporting career or not in the future. It's just a nice experience for them and something cool to say in school. It's a junior event after all. 

 

Now, if we were talking about Tokyo, then that would be magnitude 9 catastrophe.  

[heywoodu 15,174]

2 hours ago, thiago_simoes said:

I'm very, very angry now. No Junior Worlds in artistic and rhythmic gymnastics in 2021, no YOG in 2022. I've never really been a huge fan of the Olympics (it's not a secret I only care about artistic and rhythmic gymnastics), but I enjoy the YOG for what is is. Terrible decision.

And heavyweight weightlifting if Russia is not banned  

[heywoodu 15,174]

2 hours ago, dcro said:

I'll never understand how YOG ever gets any following anyway. IOC is basically just milking their name and status to sell more of their brand.

 

Youth Olympic Games are neither a proper Olympic nor youth event.

It's a multi-sports event that's global instead of regional (I know not all the best youths in the world compete), and it does showcase a lot of athletes who grow up to become pretty big. And it's live sports if watching it is possible, I'm not gonna pass up that opportunity easily.

[heywoodu 15,174]

58 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

An innovative format. Literally anyone could qualify. People could also view all qualification entries and choose their favorites (not that it had much weight on selection, but it got the individual athletes more attention). 

 

Also, it wasn’t TikTok. It was a platform created by the WDSF.

Was said selection based on the skill or on 'how cool' it looked?  

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3 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Was said selection based on the skill or on 'how cool' it looked?  

It was based on skill. There was criteria that the judges were looking for. They had a panel of past elite b-boys/girls whose job was to judge every entry. I think it took them a whole month or something.

[heywoodu 15,174]

3 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

It was based on skill. There was criteria that the judges were looking for. They had a panel of past elite b-boys/girls whose job was to judge every entry. I think it took them a whole month or something.

 

Yeah sorry, we don't have a month to judge events during the Olympics. Too bad!  

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my friends, really...

I just can't understand (and never I'll do it) how a bunch of kids having seizures like epileptics can be put into the Olympic program... 

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Just now, phelps said:

my friends, really...

I just can't understand (and never I'll do it) how a bunch of kids having seizures like epileptics can be put into the Olympic program... 

Every time this comes up I want to correct someone and say "Hold on, it's not on the real Olympic program yet". Until I realize it is