The Lillehammer Olympic Legacy Sports Centre – “Train better, Lead better. Share it with the world.”

Funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Culture and the IOC, the Centre was inaugurated in 2017. The Centre is an integral branch of the Norwegian NOC organisation. It welcomes both Norwegian and international young athletes, coaches, leaders and event organisers. Its slogan is “Train better. Lead better. Share it with the world.”

Its three key areas are training camps for young athletes and coaches (held with national and international sport federations), seminars for athletes and coaches, and leader or organiser development, based on elements of the YOG Learn and Share programme.

In 2019, more than 400 young talents from 25 countries attended international training camps in Lillehammer run by the LOLSC, including the Equinor International Junior Camp for promising cross-country skiing athletes, the Lillehammer Youth Curling Camp, the Lillehammer International Ski Jumping Camp and the Lillehammer International Sliding Camp.

Athletes from 25 countries have attended these camps, including Armenia, Austria, Afghanistan, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Denmark, Spain, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, the UK, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Latvia, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Sweden, Turkey and Norway.

The LOLSC also offers 25 years of sports event expertise to future hosts for international sports events all over the world. As an example, the Centre is supporting the relationship between China and Norway, aiming to help develop winter sports in China ahead of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games.

The Youth Olympic Village, built as student accommodation ahead of the 2016 YOG, is now also used for LOLSC summer camps.

“Lillehammer’s Olympic Legacy Centre is testament to the long-lasting impact of the Olympic Winter Games in 1994 and the 2016 Winter Youth Olympic Games,” said IOC President Thomas Bach.