ABSTRACT
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is
currently planning the historic Youth Olympic
Games (YOG), an international mul ti sport event
that will be inaugurated in Singapore in 2010. On
the 6t h of July 2007, the establishment of the YOG
was approved and will feature 14 to 18 year old
athletes. The purpose of the YOG is to complement
the Olympic Games but not to create a “mini
Games”. This event will place emphasis on quality
of performance, rather than the sport ing
achievement itself and the IOC aims to use the
YOG to address the decline in the relevance of
sport amongst the younger generation and to
educate the youth through the values that sport
teaches. The selected sport events will be carefully
chosen to protect the health of the young athletes.
This study evaluated the perceived strengths,
weaknesses, opportunities and threats that South
Africa faces in delivering the mandate of the IOC
on the YOG. The study had a critical theoretical
framework. A semi structured questionnaire was
completed by 36 academic sport experts and
administrators of the nine provincial sport
academies. The semi st ructured questionnaire
al lowed the respondents an opportunity to comment
on other relevant issue(s) not raised in the
questionnaire. Thematic content analysis was
carried out on the semi structured questionnaires.
The data gained was util ised to briefly crit ique
South African society and sports in the context of
the YOG. The findings i lluminate some percept ion
on South Africa’s strengths, weaknesses,
opportunities and threats in relation to the IOC’s
vision and mandate and how a team for the
Singapore 2010 YOG and beyond may be
galvanised.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:tut/oai:encore.tut.ac.za:d1001648 |
| Date | 01 June 2009 |
| Creators | Nongogo, P, Shaw, PB, Shaw, I |
| Publisher | African Journal for Physical, Health Education, Recreation and Dance |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | |
| Rights | African Journal for Physical, Health Education, Recreation and Dance |
| Relation | Youth olympic games and South Africa O |
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