Singapore for the first Youth Olympics

Just got the news today that Singapore was awarded the chance to host the first youth olympics. Hearing this news makes me pretty happy, and very proud to be Singaporean. It does feel that Singapore has got a stage that we are able to compete with big nations and cities to vie for bigger things. Although the youth olympics is only a smaller scale version of the olympics, but for a small country like ours, there is almost no way we would have been able to host something as huge as the olympics. So this is like the biggest sports event that we are capable of hosting. Well, even the built up to the announcement, there was big hopes for us, and I really think that it is only sensible for Singapore to get the hosting rights.

The youth olympics was, in the first place, meant for smaller cities and countries to get a chance to gain experience of hosting a major sports event (just a smaller version of it). So it makes sense to award the rights to Singapore rather than Moscow, a city that has already hosted the olympics before and will be hosting the winter olympics soon. Whats more, this being the first youth olympics, there is a need to set the record right, because if Moscow gets the right this time, subsequent YOGs will be dominated by cities like Beijing, Barcelona, Sydney and Athens. And the whole event will lose its focus and meaning.

So congratulations to Singapore, and I hope that the 2010 YOG will be an astounding success and the whole world can recognise Singapore as a sporting nations as well. Kudos to SG, cheers!