Ioc: Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Watched By More Than Two Billion Men And Women
The Youth Olympic Games are planned to be a “junior” version of the Games, complementing the existing “senior” Games, and will function athletes between the ages of 14 and 18. The idea for such an event was envisioned in 2001 by IOC president Jacques Rogge, and at the 119th IOC session in Guatemala City in July 2007, the IOC authorized the Games. Sanctions in the aftermath of World War I meant that the war’s losing nations were banned from competing…