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Youth Olympic GamesFAST FACTS1281%3,000213,000 900,000LONDONThe 2010 Youth Olympic Games (YOG) were the fi rst new event to be introduced by the IOC since the Olympic Winter Games were launched in 1924Key facts and fi gures from inside the Olympic MovementExactly 22 years after the Olympic Winter Games Lillehammer 1994, the YOG were held in the Norwegian host city in 2016medals were won by Singapore 2010 YOG athletes at the Olympic Games London 2012Golf and rugby sevens made their debuts at the Nanjing 2014 YOG, two years before joining the programme at the Olympic Games Rio 2016For the fi rst time in Olympic history, the Buenos Aires 2018 YOG will achieve gender equality on the sports programme, with 1,893 men and 1,893 women set to competeAlmostMore than 190 young athletes who took part in the inaugural YOG in Singapore in 2010 went on to compete at the Olympic Games, in London in 2012volunteers contributed to the success of Lillehammer 2016fans attended sporting and cultural events during Lillehammer 2016 (Lillehammer only has a population of around 26,000)Men WomenSingapore 2010Nanjing 20141,8461,6781,9081,8511,8931,893Buenos Aires 2018Lillehammer19948 Gold9 Silver8 BronzeSingaporeSummerYOG2010LillehammerWinter YOG 2016Innsbruck Winter YOG 2012Nanjing Summer YOG 2014exciting new events made their debut at Lillehammer 2016, including the monobob races, the Nordic mixed team event and the team ski-snowboard cross eventof young athletes at the Nanjing 2014 YOG said they wanted to continue accessing the Learn & Share educational materials after the Games, leading to the creation of the Compete, Learn & Share gateway interactions had been recorded by the athletes’ Yoggers (USB drives that allowed them to exchange contact details while also picking up essential information from the many educational booths and workshops) by the end of the Nanjing 2014 YOGyogger.olympic.orgathletes competed at the fi rst edition of the YOG in Singapore in 2010* INFORMATION SOURCED FROM IOC REPORTS82 OLYMPIC REVIEW