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Fourth IOC Coordination Commission visit in Lillehammer 2016
FIS President Gian Franco Kasper was in Lillehammer (NOR) this week as a member of the IOC Coordination Commission for the second edition of the Winter Youth Olympic Games (YOG).
With legacy at the heart of the organisation, starting with using existing venues from the 1994 Olympic Winter Games, the Coordination Commission was happy with the progress made on the Youth Olympic Village (YOV), which is near completion. This venue will be used as student housing before and after the Games. Several other legacy commitments have also come to fruition, including contributing to the 10-year plan to boost Norwegian youth sport and the establishment of a Lillehammer Legacy Centre.
The Lillehammer 2016 Organising Committee presented its Torch Tour concept, which will engage all 19 counties of Norway. This “road-show” will take the flame nationwide to visit nominated young “sport change-makers”. A flame event will be hosted in each county, organised by 200 young leaders who will go on to support the thousands of Games-time volunteers.
Furthermore, LYOGOC gave an update on its projects to involve young people at all levels of the organisation, from young designers who created the mascot, pictograms and Look of the Games, to young sports presenters and competition managers. This commitment to involve young people was further supported by the decision to follow the successful Innsbruck 2012 model of free tickets to all the sports competitions.
LYOGOC has embraced and implemented many of the Olympic Agenda 2020 recommendations into the Games in response to the IOC’s request to look for options to scale down the protocol at the Youth Olympic Games.
Source: fis-ski.com
With legacy at the heart of the organisation, starting with using existing venues from the 1994 Olympic Winter Games, the Coordination Commission was happy with the progress made on the Youth Olympic Village (YOV), which is near completion. This venue will be used as student housing before and after the Games. Several other legacy commitments have also come to fruition, including contributing to the 10-year plan to boost Norwegian youth sport and the establishment of a Lillehammer Legacy Centre.
The Lillehammer 2016 Organising Committee presented its Torch Tour concept, which will engage all 19 counties of Norway. This “road-show” will take the flame nationwide to visit nominated young “sport change-makers”. A flame event will be hosted in each county, organised by 200 young leaders who will go on to support the thousands of Games-time volunteers.
Furthermore, LYOGOC gave an update on its projects to involve young people at all levels of the organisation, from young designers who created the mascot, pictograms and Look of the Games, to young sports presenters and competition managers. This commitment to involve young people was further supported by the decision to follow the successful Innsbruck 2012 model of free tickets to all the sports competitions.
LYOGOC has embraced and implemented many of the Olympic Agenda 2020 recommendations into the Games in response to the IOC’s request to look for options to scale down the protocol at the Youth Olympic Games.
Source: fis-ski.com
