Calling all 14-18-year-olds! The third edition of the Summer Youth Olympics, officially called “III Summer Youth Olympic Games,” are currently being hosted in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The games, which began October 6, end tomorrow. The games feature 241 events in 32 sports, including boxing, fencing, futsal, golf, gymnastics, taekwondo, and tennis.
A total of 206 countries sent at least one athlete to the Youth Olympics this year. Of those, Kosovo and South Sudan were making their Youth Olympics debut. These Games are also the first Olympic participation of Eswatini, the country formerly called Swaziland.
The next Summer Youth Olympics will be held in 2022 in Dakar, Senegal.
(AP Photos: Top left: Sophie White (silver) of Australia and Grace Stark (gold) of the United States pose with Youth Olympics hurdling medals and mascot, Pandi. Top right: French high jumper Mohammed-Ali Benlahbib. Lower left: Christian Tio (front) of the Philippines won his country’s first Youth Olympics medal with a silver in Men's Kiteboarding. Tio Lower right: Eventual American gold medalist Robert Howard (blue) wrestles Vladyslav Ostapenko of Ukraine in his second match of the Games.)
