Ten Years On: the Youth Olympic Games (Yog) Through The Eyes Of Australian Athletes

Grayson, Suzanne ^[1]
1. [1] University of Peloponnese
  
  University of Peloponnese
  
  Dimos Tripoli, Grecia
Localización: Diagoras: International Academic Journal on Olympic Studies, ISSN-e 2565-196X, Nº. 5, 2021, págs. 43-57
Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
- The inclusion of the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) to the Olympic Movement was theInternational Olympic Committee’s (IOC) action to introduce Olympism and the Olympic valuesto youth, hoping to turn the tide on rising obesity and the growing rate of inactivity, particularlyamongst teenagers. It had been perceived that the Olympic Movement had largely neglected theneeds of young people, motivating former IOC president Jacques Rogge to present a case for theimplementation of the YOG.This article reports on research that examined some of the claims of the Olympic Movementrelated to the YOG through the eyes of Australian athletes at the latest summer YOG of 2018. Inaddition, it discusses the role of the athletes themselves, in terms of their perception, understandingand experiences drawn from the global multi-sport event, which is rare in the literature and nonexistentin terms of Australian participants who have represented their country at all the games.