19/04/2013
Young people from Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda came together peacefully at the Gatumba Community Youth Sport Centre in Burundi last weekend to share their passion for judo. Abo...
17/04/2013
Today, IOC President Jacques Rogge and Sandro Rosell, President of FC Barcelona, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the IOC headquarters in Lausanne. The signing marks the beginning of an o...
20/12/2012
The Olympic Youth Development Centre in Lusaka, Zambia, continued to make an impact on the lives of young people this month when it hosted the swimming, judo and track and field events of the Zone Six...
04/10/2012
HRH The Princess Royal paid a special visit to the Zambian Olympic Youth Development Centre (OYDC) this week, delighting hundreds of young athletes who use the facilities. The Centre, which was inaugu...
28/08/2012
Thanks to the generosity of the athletes, the National Olympic Committees (NOCs), the International Federations and other Olympic family partners, the third edition of the “Giving is Winning” campaign...
23/07/2012
During a tour of the Olympic Village today, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge, together with members of the IOC Executive Board and the IOC Athletes’ Commission, took part ...
26/06/2012
More than 150,000 young people living in camps for refugees and internally displaced people will get access to sport through a two-year programme which will see the distribution of IOC sports kits in ...
30/05/2012
With less than two months to go until the London Games, the IOC is determined to boost the third “Giving is Winning” campaign, a joint IOC-United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) project...
20/02/2012
A few days before IOC President Jacques Rogge visits the Olympic Youth Development Centre in Lusaka (Zambia), accompanied by the United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, a second project symboli...
10/02/2012
One of the IOC’s missions is to promote the Olympic values in order to place sport at the service of the harmonious development of our society. The IOC has thus developed a comprehensive programme usi...
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