Sports Briefing |Olympics: Youth Olympics Planned for 2010
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Olympic leaders voted yesterday to create a Youth Olympics meant to lure children from computer screens and onto the playing fields. The first such event is planned for 2010 for 3,200 athletes, ages 14-18. It would be the first major global sports festival created by the International Olympic Committee since the advent of the Winter Games in 1924. All Olympic sports would be represented, but with fewer events. Jacques Rogge, the I.O.C. president, said some new, youth-oriented sports might be introduced. Details must be worked out, but the first Youth Olympics would be a summer games, and the site will be chosen in February.
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The public is being asked to help the government come up with a 10-year plan to improve children's lives.
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Olympic athletes may be allowed to blog for the first time at the 2008 Beijing Games.
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The Olympic image could be damaged by allegations that children as young as 12 are being employed to make officially licensed products for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. That's the message Wednesday from Chen Feng, deputy director of marketing for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, who has summoned four manufacturers to Beijing to answer charges of labor-law violations in the making of Olympic goods.
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More than Â£100million profit is expected to be made from staging the 2012 Olympic Games in London, it has been claimed. The estimate forms part of the London 2012 bid book handed into the International Olympic Committee on Monday.
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Major League Soccer plans to start a new league to develop young players, part of its 10-year sponsorship deal with Adidas.
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia  - Organizers of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver hope to have a deal with the International Olympic Committee on sharing broadcast revenues by the end of February, officials said on Tuesday.
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Silver Spring's Kristine Musademba, 15, will compete in the U.S. Figure Skating Championships on Sunday, hoping it is another step that leads to the 2010 Olympics.
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ATHENS -- They are the most important 10 seconds, or thereabouts, the Olympic Games have to offer.
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AUSTRALIA&#39;s Olympic sports have begun to prepare for the Asian onslaught they expect when Beijing hosts the next Games in 2008.
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Cities like Hong Kong, Dubai, Johannesburg and New York could start hosting English Premier League matches during the 2010/11 season under groundbreaking proposals outlined here on Thursday.
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MUNICH (Deutsche Welle) - Bavaria's capital says it is preparing to present a bid to host the 2018 Olympic Winter Games. If it wins, Munich would be the first city ever to have hosted both the summer and winter games. Munich hosted the summer Olympics Games in 1972. When it makes its decision in 2011, the International Olympic Committee will determine whether the southern German city will be the first ever to host both games. The official concept is to be delivered to the IOC by mid-2009. In 2010, official candidates will be selected, and a final decision will be made by 2011. The next Winter Games are set to take place in Vancouver, Canada in 2010. The 2014 Olympic Games will be held in the Russian city of Sochi.
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GRAND FORKS, ND (CP) - Most of the players on the Canadian junior men&#39;s hockey team were 11 years old when their country last won gold at the world junior championship.
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - There could be more curling medals handed out at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, if a World Curling Federation proposal is accepted.
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The City Council wants to bring the Olympics here for a third time. The council unanimously endorsed a proposal Wednesday to vie for the Summer Games as early as 2016.
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The Japanese Olympic Committee on Thursday notified the International Olympic Committee of its intention to offer Tokyo as a candidate to host the 2016 Summer Olympics.
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia  - Hosting the 2010   Winter Olympics in Vancouver will cost taxpayers at least C$2.5   billion ($2.2 billion), far more than government officials   claim, according to an auditor's report on Thursday.