Team GB Youth Olympic Games Squad Selected

16th July 2010

A group of 40 young athletes from 16 Olympic sports were today selected by the British Olympic Association to compete for Team GB at the first Youth Olympic Games (YOG), which take place in Singapore from 14-26 August.

The athletes, aged 14-18, will participate alongside 3,600 competitors from all 205 National Olympic Committees in a competition schedule which includes all 26 sports on the London 2012 Olympic Programme.

The British contingent will include 2009 World and 2008 European 10m platform diving champion Tom Daley, who was Team GB's youngest competitor at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. >>more