ABSTRACT
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is concerned with anchoring the Olympic Movement, which is called the Olympic spirit in the young generation. The Youth Olympic Games (YOG) sport event programme is like that of the Olympic Games (OG), but YOG also includes activities from modern youth culture such as 3-on-3 basketball, and events with mixed national and gender teams. The events distinguish themselves from other youth sport events by including an extensive cultural and educational programme (CEP) on topics such as Olympism, social responsibility, wellbeing and a healthy life style, and skills development. A key finding is that the YOG seems to come considerably closer to Olympic ideals than does the OG. The interest in Anglo-Saxon culture and society was intensified during Coubertins travels to the United States. DaCosta (2002) refers to it as a proto-philosophy open to interpretation and reformulation. Olympism is a blendwork in which ethics is replaced with aesthetics, and morality with style.
