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Lillehammer 2016

Alpine Skiing

Biathlon

Bobsleigh

Cross-Country Skiing

Curling

Figure Skating

Freestyle Skiing

Ice Hockey

Luge

Nordic Combined

Short Track Speed Skating

Skeleton

Ski Jumping

Snowboard

Speed Skating

Canada

Germany

Great Britain

Japan

Korea

Mongolia

Slovenia

Switzerland

United States

Republic of Korea’s Kim Min-sun believes competing at the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) proved to be the perfect launching pad for her speed skating career.
Kim won the gold at the women's 500m event at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics in Lillehammer and went on to qualify for two Olympic

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Kim Min-sun on why the Youth Olympics remains her most memorable Games.

Gangwon 2024: Kim Min-sun reflects on Youth Olympics as career highlight, valuing experience over medals

Highlights of the Closing Ceremony as the 2016 Youth Olympic Games in Lillehammer officially end.

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Closing Ceremony Highlights | ​Lillehammer 2016 ​Youth Olympic Games​

Highlights of the Opening Ceremony as the 2016 Youth Olympic Games in Lillehammer officially open.

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Opening Ceremony | ​Lillehammer 2016 ​Youth Olympic Games​

Five Years On: The legacies of Lillehammer 2016

How do you reflect on your experiences at the Winter YOG Lillehammer 2016?

‘The YOG were the most fun I’ve ever had curling,’ says Lillehammer 2016 gold medallist Tardi

Highlights from Day 1 of the Lillerhammer 2016 Youth Olympic Games. Highlights include the Opening Ceremony, Men's and Women's Ice Hockey and Curling.

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Best of the Games - Day 1 | Lillehammer 2016 Highlights

With a population of just 24,000 people, the Norwegian town of Lillehammer may be small, but since hosting the&nbsp; Olympic Winter Games in 1994 it has had an outsize impact on winter sports around the world\. That legacy looks set to grow\.

Lillehammer – a small town at the heart of winter sports excellence

Five Years On: Where are the stars of Lillehammer 2016 now?

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YOG champion Pittaway aiming to continue British skeleton legacy

Masters of Ceremonies

The Youth Olympic Games are not just about sport &ndash; they are also about bringing young athletes from all over the world together, and enabling them to create friendships and memories that will last a lifetime\.

Friends Forever at the YOG

#YOGsocial: The latest posts from YOG stars

Monobob enjoyed a successful Olympic debut at the Winter YOG organised in 2016 in Lillehammer, and it was a real revolution for this sport, which has been on the Winter Games programme since the very first edition in Chamonix in 1924\. For decades, the world of bobsleigh has been dominated

Women’s monobob – a new Olympic discipline is making headway

My heart belongs to sport\. Ever since I was six years old, I have participated in everything from gymnastics, swimming and football, to dancing, boxing and handball\.

Lillehammer 2016 : Empowering young people

River Radamus holds the distinction of being the first and only skier or snowboarder to win three individual gold medals at the YOG\. Now aged 20, two years ago he stormed to a hat\-trick of victories in the super\-G, combined and giant slalom on the Olympic slopes of Hafjell, the

#YOGJourney: YOG star River Radamus ready to race against the world’s best

How were you chosen to represent the USA as a Young Ambassador in Lillehammer?&nbsp;

Kate Anderson: Building a brighter future

Beginning with a bang: memorable moments from YOG Opening Ceremonies

What is your favourite memory from the Winter YOG Lillehammer 2016?

From Youth Olympic Games to PyeongChang 2018: Deniss Vasiljevs – Latvian figure skater

The Youth Olympic Games \(YOG\) have never been afraid to experiment, and this was very much in evidence in Innsbruck in 2012, when an exciting event made a comeback to the speed skating programme after last being at an Olympic event in 1932\.

YOG reignites mass start on Austrian ice

Republic of Korea&rsquo;s Magnus Kim was the star of the men&rsquo;s cross\-country skiing competition at the Winter Youth Olympic Games Lillehammer 2016, making it to the podium in every event he contested and winning two YOG titles\.

Magnus Kim hopes for Olympic glory on home soil

How excited were you about competing at the first Winter YOG in Innsbruck in 2012?

A double Youth Olympic experience for Saskia Langer

&ldquo;I was down there\. I didn&rsquo;t know if I would come up again and start a new life but Lillehammer was like the light in the dark, the light to show me the right way,&rdquo; Al\-Saad said\.

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YOG’s Iraqi Young Leader shows the power of sport

&ldquo;As soon as we started with the project we looked to what happened in Lillehammer for the Youth Olympic Games,&rdquo; said Arne Abraten, CEO of Raw Air\.

Raw Air flying high on the back of YOG 2016

Twelve months ago&nbsp;Jung&nbsp;Seunggi&nbsp;entered the sliding centre at the Lillehammer 2016&nbsp;Winter&nbsp;Youth Olympic Games ranked number one in the world for his age group,&nbsp;full&nbsp;of confidence and focused only on gold\.&nbsp;It was not to be\.&nbsp;

Lessons learned for PyeongChang 2018 skeleton hopeful Jung Seunggi

One year on from representing his country at the Youth Olympic Games, Ochirsukh Adiyabaatar is negotiating the tricky but crucial balance between his studies and his sport\. It is a factor no doubt familiar to many of the 1,067 athletes who competed in Lillehammer\.

School rules for Mongolia’s ambitious YOG star

Taking on the baton: A year in the life of Norway’s young sporting leaders

Slovenian ski jumper Ema Klinec is unashamedly greedy for success\. &nbsp;The Winter Youth Olympic Games 2016 double gold medallist \(ladies individual and mixed team\) added FIS Junior World Championship mixed team gold and ladies individual silver to her bulging trophy cabinet earlier this month\.

YOG champions flying high as Slovenia continues ski jump success

Freestyle ski star Rowlands reckons the Lillehammer YOG will prove to have been perfect preparation for the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018\. And with the Lillehammer 2016 double medallist already on her way to securing a qualification place for the winter sport spectacular in South Korea next year, she is

Double medallist Madison Rowlands hails Lillehammer 2016 as ideal preparation for PyeongChang 2018

An NOK 20 million \(USD 2\.4 million\) surplus from the Games has recently been announced by the Norwegian Olympic Committee \(NIF\), consisting of profit and the state guarantee, all of which will go back into the national sports system\. In addition to the NOK 1 million contribution from the International

Lillehammer 2016 celebrates one-year-on successes while athletes set sights on PyeongChang 2018

Elite sportsmen and women often claim to be doing what they love for a living\. To maintain that equilibrium between passion and profession once they have left the athletics arena is no mean feat\. Canada&rsquo;s Olympic Winter Games Vancouver 2010 ski jumper Eric Mitchell and Chile&rsquo;s former international slalom skier

Bright young things: meet the ambitious YOG Ambassadors set on changing the world

Lillehammer 2016: Where stars were born

One year on from his stunning, triple gold medal\-winning performances at the Youth Olympic Games, USA alpine skier River Radamus reflects on his achievements with a huge amount of pride and a slight sense of fear\.

Triple YOG gold medal haul just the start for a focused Radamus

&ldquo;We were really treated like adults,&rdquo; de Ridder said\. &ldquo;It was our Games and we could say when we didn&rsquo;t agree with something or thought something could be better&rdquo;\.

Tim de Ridder: Lillehammer Games gave youth a voice

Twelve months on and not only is Shelley Rudman still raving about the Lillehammer 2016 Youth Olympic Games, but it seems like she remains in touch with half of the participants\.

Shelley Rudman’s Lillehammer 2016 story – behind the scenes as an athlete role model

The lowdown on... cross-country cross

In a year&rsquo;s time, the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018 will see curling mixed doubles make its debut as an Olympic event\. But while this will be the first time the event has been staged at an Olympic Winter Games, it has already been held at two editions of the

YOG stars lead the way as curlers prepare for mixed doubles in PyeongChang

The Norwgeian NOC&rsquo;s youth advisor, Kathrine Godager, reflects on a heartening 12 months, the lasting legacy of the Games and her hopes for the future\.

Young Norwegians shaking up sport post-Lillehammer 2016

On 12 February 2016, over 1,000 of the best international athletes gathered in the Norwegian city to compete, learn and share and, along with a small army of young organisers and volunteers, together they had an experience they would never forget, while fans around the world witnessed sport&rsquo;s next generation

Lillehammer 2016 continues to ‘Go Beyond, Create Tomorrow’ – one year on!

As a 13\-year\-old, Claire Hamilton remembers being transfixed by the British women&rsquo;s curling team that won gold at the Olympic Winter Games Salt Lake City 2002\.

Young Ambassador eager to continue nurturing next generation of athletes

Two years ago, my friend and I founded Young Active &ndash; a club to help introduce young people in our hometown to sport\. We don&rsquo;t care if you&rsquo;re a bodybuilder or a &ldquo;couch potato&rdquo;; we focus on having fun and meeting new people &ndash; not on becoming the best athletes

Empowering Young People

When your training finishes at 1am in the morning, no\-one can question your commitment to your sport, and for Verity Lewis \(GBR\) it was the chance to compete in the innovative Ice Hockey Skills Challenge competition at the Youth Olympic Games that kept her going through those long nights on

My YOG Story - with Verity Lewis

During the Winter Youth Olympic Games \(YOG\) held in Lillehammer, Norway, last month, a large majority of the 1,100 participating athletes coming from 70 nations visited and participated in the International Olympic Committee \(IOC\)&rsquo;s PLAY FAIR booth\.&nbsp;

IOC teaches hundreds of young athletes to protect their sport and PLAY FAIR

Sajandan Rutthira became a household name overnight in Norway when he was named Change\- Maker of the Year for his tireless and selfless commitment to sport in his community, not only as a player but as a coach\. But nothing could quite prepare him for what was to come\. Here

A life-changing YOG experience

Germany&rsquo;s Laura Nolte and Jonas Jannusch topped the podiums in the men&rsquo;s and women&rsquo;s monobob, an exciting new Olympic event that received unanimous praise for creating a level playing field and which looks to have a bright future ahead of it\.

Monobob proves an instant hit at Lillehammer 2016

Republic of Korea&rsquo;s Magnus Kim was the star of the men&rsquo;s cross\-country skiing competition at Lillehammer 2016, medalling in every event he contested and winning two titles, while highly promising Swedish duo Moa Lundgren and Johanna Hagstr&ouml;m excelled in the women&rsquo;s events\.

Magnus and the Swedes put on a show at Birkebeineren

US riders call the snowboard shots in Lillehammer The Lillehammer 2016 snowboard competitions were held at two separate venues, with Oslo&rsquo;s Vinterpark staging the halfpipe events and the Hafjell Freepark providing the setting for the snowboard cross and slopestyle competitions\. Spearheaded by the irrepressible Chloe Kim, the USA virtually swept

US riders call the snowboard shots in Lillehammer

The winners of three titles and four medals respectively, the USA&rsquo;s River Radamus and Switzerland&rsquo;s Aline Danioth were the stars of the Lillehammer 2016 Alpine skiing competitions in Hafjell, which came to an exciting conclusion with the fast\-paced parallel mixed team event\.

River and Aline dominate Alpine skiing scene

The daring young freestyle skiers competing at the Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lillehammer put on a marvellous spectacle, enthralling the crowds in the halfpipe, slopestyle and ski cross events, all of which will be on the menu again at the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018\.

Fans flip out for freestyle skiing at Lillehammer 2016

Sweden and USA took the respective honours in the women&rsquo;s and men&rsquo;s ice hockey competitions at Lillehammer 2016, while Japan&rsquo;s Sena Takenaka and Romania&rsquo;s Eduard Casaneanu were the winners in the women&rsquo;s and men&rsquo;s skills contests\.

Thrills, spills and firsts aplenty in the ice hockey at Lillehammer 2016

Judging by the stellar performances of Sivert Guttorm Bakken and Marthe Krakstad Johansen, who won seven medals between them in as many events, including mixed relay gold on the final day of Lillehammer 2016, the future of Norwegian biathlon looks to be in very safe hands\.

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