Youth Olympic Camp
At the Olympic Summer and Winter Games each organized organizing committee (OK) an Olympic Youth Camp for young people from all over the world.
Each National Olympic Committee sends two young athletes who can experience the Olympic Games up close. The program includes official events, visits to sporting events and culture . In 2004 (Athens) the Olympic Youth Camp was organized in cooperation with UNICEF .
The NOK for Germany, together with the German Youth Sport and the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) , has also been organizing a youth camp with around 50 young athletes and sporting hopes at the location of the respective Olympic Games since Salt Lake City in 2002 . As a result, youth camps took place in Athens in 2004 and Turin in 2006 . For financial reasons, there was no separate German youth camp in Beijing in 2008 .
Selection criteria for participation are athletic performance in the various disciplines as well as social, musical and linguistic competence. The aim of the German Sports Youth and the DOSB is to use this offer to motivate young people to get actively involved in sport.
Many participants in past Olympic youth camps are current and former top athletes, including Lena Schöneborn , Nadine Kleinert and Frank Busemann .
In addition, a Paralympic youth camp was held parallel to the Paralympics .