What is Friends @ YOG?
Last August, Singapore was the host country of the first Youth Olympic Games.
Last August, Singapore was the host country of the first Youth Olympic Games.
They have received approximately 3600 athletes and 800 officials of the 205 National Olympic Committees, together with approximately 20 000 Singaporean volunteers, foreigners and more than 500 000 audience.
Athletes from 14 to 18 years have competed in 26 sports and participated in a cultural and educational program.
Under this initiative, the local Committee has released the project Friends@YOG, inviting all of the countries, through their respective Olympic committees, to become a dynamic of cultural exchanges, with the values of friendship as a background, which complete the sports competition.
Therefore, the Emidio Navarro Secondary School took up the participation challenge launched by the Olympic Committee of Portugal (OCP), having established an Exchange with school CHIJ Saint Theresa's Convent.
