Singapur: Juvenile or mercantile olympiad?

By: Fidel Alejandro Manzanares Fernández (Student of journalism) / Television Camagüey

Its bigger brother already bill with more than a century of existence, and apparently, what a principle seemed a battle based on the principles of the fraternity has become a commercial war of speculative might. Beijing was the most recent sample in it; and the disappearance of sports that don't attribute earnings to the organizers and television chains as the baseball left the “park.”

Now the family Olympic bill with a new conceived tenant hardly two years ago and materialized by these days in the Asian region of Singapore; while the summery show of winter even lasts for the lovers of the skating and the slips in the snow or the ice.

But the “chiquilín” will be our topic and question. The Youth's I Olympic Games whose headquarters was granted February 21, 2008 by the 105 members from the COI to this oriental city, victorious in its dispute with a great city like Moscow. But, why some JJ.O.O?

At first sight it sounds like a brilliant proposal where the homos sapiens of smaller age with sport attitudes has the possibility to compete and to demonstrate all category they possess. More than a thousand 500 competitors coming from more than two hundreds of countries signed up in 26 disciplines, they proclaim the magnitude of the encounter.


Now, although it is certain that the juvenile ones needed their universal space, love of the different ones world and regional competitions for the inferior categories, the party of Singapore has a dual character because the goals that are pursued are not completely healthy; or it is that we have maybe forgotten what has become the sport.


The recently concluded World Cup of Soccer is the most alive example in the intercontinental economic character of the fair ones that not leave millionaire figures alone for organizers but also for those of the Niké, Gatorade, Puma, Coca Cola or for those of the ADIDAS; however this is not enough, is that was even a cabinet better in this juvenile exchange.

And is it that the future is to guarantee , truth? To those of the professionalism if that put to him in tray of “silver”. is a fresh merchandise point of offering.

I didn't want to seem arrogant and a lot less than the topic is repetitive but I find impossible to close the eyes or to live back to the society.

The delegation of Cuba is also present in the Youth's first Olympic Games and already bill with three medals thanks to the work of fighters and pesistas, although in the island we all await for the outburst of our voleyballmen whose payroll heads the most immediate handout in this discipline, Wilfredo León. It is an unique opportunity to measure to the house pupils and fire them in the international sand.

Let us wait that the 26 next when fades the flame and lower the flag of the five hoops, the inhabitants of the planet are satisfied with all that happened in sport matter. The rest is benefits of some few ones in this new auction played by the capital.