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Nike Air Vapormax , 2016. (XinhuaHan Yan) Thomas Bach (2nd L), President of the International Olympic Committee, speaks at a press conference held ahead of the opening of the Lillehammer 2016 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lillehammer, Norway
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LILLEHAMMER, Norway, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) -- International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach on Thursday praised the upcoming Lillehammer Winter Youth Olympic Games in Norway as ""a great opportunity"" to educate young athletes.
""The stage is set for the young athletes and hopefully also for the many spectators and the visitors to this Youth Olympic Games
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A total of 1,100 young athletes from the age of 14 to 18 from about 70 National Olympic Committees will compete in 70 medal events during the Games from Feb. 12 to 21 in Norwegian cities of Lillehammer, Hamar, Gjovik
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The Games are ""a great opportunity to, in the one hand, inform and educate the young athletes, but also to make obvious what athletes and what the sports are doing for the society
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The Learn and Share program provides activities for the young athletes to learn together in workshops, which will focus on Olympism, skills development, well-being
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In collaboration, they will also have much to learn from each other across borders, cultures, languages and sport disciplines.
During the 10-day events
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The IOC chief praised the young leaders in their latest efforts to address the refugee crisis and reiterated IOC's support for refugee athletes.
""This refugee crisis will not be solved by our generation. This challenge of such a magnitude will have to be solved by the next generation of these young leaders,"" Bach said.
He said the IOC has been cooperating with UN agencies to support sports facilities and sports programs in many refugee camps around the world and making efforts to help refugee athletes to continue to train and go to follow their Olympic dreams.
The IOC has already pledged two million U.S dollars to help refugees and will also invite some refugee athletes as a team to march into the stadium at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and participate on an equal stand with other athletes, Bach said.
He said the 2nd Winter Youth Olympic Games is a ""great legacy"" and hoped more cities in other countries will follow Lillehamer to be candidates for winter games.
""The Games will be a great opportunity for Lillehammer and Norway to refresh and modernize the great legacy of the Lillehammer Olympic Games (in 1994) have left here,"" Bach said.
The venues from the 1994 winter Olympic Games in Lillehammer will be reused for the events in 2016 as reuse is an important part of the Youth Olympic Games.
The Youth Olympic Games was established on April 25
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The first Winter Youth Olympic Games was held in Innsbruck, Austria, in January
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Wednesday approved five new sports for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, including baseball and softball, karate, skateboard, sports climbing and surfing.
The decision by the 129th IOC Session in Rio de Janeiro underlined the top sports organization's effort to attract young people.
The IOC session voted unanimously in favor of the sports which were proposed by the 2020 organizers and will make a one-off appearance in the Games.
Under new rules, Olympic host cities can hand-pick sports they want in the Games to join the existing 28 core sports.
""Today's vote was the culmination of a two-year process that began with the unanimous approval of the IOC's strategic roadmap in 2014. The recommendation to give Organizing Committees the flexibility to propose new sports for their edition of the Games was intended to put even more focus on innovation, flexibility and youth in the development Olympic programme,"" said the IOC in a statement.
""We want to take sport to the youth... Tokyo 2020's balanced proposal fulfils all of the goals of the Olympic Agenda 2020 recommendation that allowed it. Taken together, the five sports are an innovative combination of established and emerging, youth-focused events that are popular in Japan and will add to the legacy of the Tokyo Games,"" said IOC President Thomas Bach.
The inclusion of the new sports will add 18 events and 474 athletes while the athlete or event quotas of existing Olympic sports will not be affected.
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PARIS, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- Months after Paris deadly attacks in January that left dozens of victims, calmness was broken once again in the French capital where fresh explosions and a series of shootings killed at least 140 people and wounded many.
About seven simultaneous shootings rocked central Paris Friday night with one of which turned to hostage taking at the Bataclan theatre and concert hall where hundreds of people were.
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