The Youth Olympic Games (Routledge Research In Sport, Culture And Society)

The first summer Youth Olympic Games (YOG) were held in Singapore in 2010 and the first winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck in 2012. The IOC hopes that the YOG will encourage young people to be more active and that they will bring the Olympic movement closer to its original founding values. This book critically examines the origins of the Games and the motives of the Games organisers, as well as the organisation and management of the Games and their wider impact and significance.

• | Author: Dag Vidar Hanstad, Milena M. Parent, Barrie Houlihan
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Nov 06, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 270 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1138788554
• | ISBN-13: 9781138788558