After 12 days of competition spread across 18 venues, with the participation of 3600 athletes, and the help of 20,000 volunteers, the curtains had to draw on the inaugural Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in Singapore on the stage that was The Float@Marina Bay.
The Youth Olympic Games basketball competition was a highlight for Jacques Rogge, the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), who spoke at a press conference this afternoon to assess the success of the inaugural games in Singapore.
Kenya's David Rudisha breaks Wilson Kipketer's nearly 13-year-old 800m world record with a time of 1 minute 41.09 seconds at the ISTAF IAAF World Challenge meet in Berlin.
A tricep tear has forced the 16-year-old Briton to skip his favourite 10m platform contest next Tuesday. Instead, he will compete in his weaker event, the 3m springboard, tomorrow.
Liberian swimmers Sima Weah and Mika-Jah Teah competed for the first time ever in a swimming pool when they competed in heat one of the youth men's 50m freestyle event at Singapore Sports School on Tuesday.
Victoria Ohuruogu, younger sister of Christine, the 400m Olympic champion in Beijing, clocks 55.46 seconds to finish third in her 400m heat yesterday. She failed to qualify for the "A" final.
16-year-old Tom Daley pulled out of the European Championships in Budapest last weekend due to a tricep injury and was a doubt for the Youth Olympic Games. But the situation might not be as dire as it first seemed.
The most decorated female athlete at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2004 Athens Olympics, Natalie Coughlin of the USA, today confirmed her participation in the Singapore leg of the FINA/Arena Swimming World Cup that will be held from 16-17 October at the Singapore Sports School. This comes after the confirmation that the Singapore Swimming Association has signed on to host a leg of the FINA/Arena Swimming World Cup for the next four years till 2013.