With personal experience as an example, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) president Francesco Ricci Bitti calls for all the young athletes at the Summer Youth Olympic Games (YOG) to learn all through life.
With the Youth Olympic Games being billed as a gathering for today's youth of the world, the ITF president Francesco Ricci Bitti highlighted on Friday that it's a great honor to represent your country and region in sport.
If you want to watch the closing ceremony of the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games, you may need to book the tickets very soon.
Ugur Erdener, a member of IOC Executive Board, said Beijing has a good chance to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, citing pleasant personal experiences during the 2008 Summer Games in the Chinese capital.
The performance, showed off by Youth Olympians, is part of a Youth Olympic Games program to encourage people to participate in sports.
The international multi-sport event organized by the International Olympic Committee is held every four years and the second edition is held in Nanjing, Jiangsu province.
For Chinese table tennis star Fan Zhendong the Youth Olympics will be more likely a stepping-stone.
Young performers take part in a street gala thrown by the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic Games (YOG) organizing committee August 18, 2014.
The International Olympic Committee wants to use the current Youth Olympic Games as a test model for a more sustainable approach to future Games' bidding processes and operations, said IOC president Thomas Bach.
To share art from different regions during the 2014 Youth Olympic Games, the Nanjing 2014 Grand Art Exhibition is open Aug 18-30.
Beijing will do a "very good job" if it wins the right to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, former International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge said in Nanjing on Friday.
For London Olympic champion Ruta Meilutyte, taking part in the Youth Olympic Games is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. So she decided to skip the European Swimming Championships to come to Nanjing.