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ObeliscoStadium River PlateCasa RosadaPuente de la MujerBoca Juniors StadiumBUENOS AIRESRIO DE LA PLATAFloralis GenericaTHE GOALS ARE TO PROMOTE HEALTHY EATING, BRING ABOUT A CULTURE OF CHANGE IN LOCAL COMMUNITIES, AND ENSURE CHILDREN EXERCISE FOR AT LEAST AN HOUR A DAY“Sport and physical activity are not only a benefit for your body, but an enabler of mental health and social life,” Lobo explains. “High-level competition helped me to deal with frustration and to remove roadblocks in my daily life. The sport taught me essential values to use outside the tennis courts. In Buenos Aires, we consider sport and physical activity as a tool to improve health, social harmony and joy.”With the aim of taking a targeted, effective approach and in the absence of hard statistical data, the city council is now looking to gain an understanding of the habits of its citizens, gauge how YOG, and the activities resulting from it, to accelerate the transformation of Buenos Aires and link the various initiatives together. A good example of this is the new sports science department set up by the city council to forge stronger ties between sport and health. Its objective is to bring the various stakeholders in the area of health together to enable doctors to prescribe physical activity as a valuable way of improving the population’s well-being. Like Lillehammer, Buenos Aires is a first-class example of a city that has harnessed the potential of an international sporting event such as the YOG to drive the promotion of physical activity, sport and healthier lifestyles.We will be focusing on one of the other eight pilot cities in our next issue. For more information, contact info@active-cities.org or visit activewellbeing.orgmuch they exercise, and identify and analyse the barriers to playing sport. Aided in this process by Argentinian universities, it also aims to standardise and assess ongoing initiatives and measure their impact on the city’s inhabitants.The city’s goals are to promote healthy eating habits, amend existing legislation to bring about a culture of change in local communities, and ensure children exercise for at least an hour a day. The city has launched a number of initiatives in the last few years (see previous page). It is now tapping into the momentum generated by the 2018 ACTIVE CITIES