1st Edition Bulletin February 2017 Welcome Letter by our CEO Dear friends, Content: On July 4th 2013, when Buenos Aires was elected in Lausanne as the host city • Welcome letter by our CEO of the 3rd Summer Youth Olympic Games, the BAYOGOC team embraced • Introducing the Head of NOC with passion and pride the commitment that delivering this event presented Services for our city and country. • About Argentina and Buenos Aires From that moment on, we have been working hard in order to inspire youth in Argentina and the world while spreading the Olympic Values of • Buenos Aires 2018 emblem Excellence, Friendship and Respect and generating actions which encourage • Sport Qualification Systems & their participation in sport and cultural activities. We seek to empower new sports and engage young people in this wonderful project while bringing sports, • Buenos Aires 2018 Celebration culture and education to them. Moreover, we have seen the potential that the Youth Olympic Games have to act as a catalyst for social and urban • YOG reach change and development. • Introducing the Youth Olympic Village We are pleased to host the frst Youth Olympic Games in South America • 3rd visit of the IOC Coordination but furthermore, in less than two years Buenos Aires will host the most Commission signifcant and impactful cultural, educational and multisport event in the history of Argentina. This will mark the beginning of a new sports era in our • Buenos Aires 2018 social media country. We will deliver an edition of the YOG which will inspire athletes of channels Argentina and the world and will bring excitement, unity and spirit to both • NOC contact form + official young people and adults. channel of communication • New NOC relations Our mission commends us to build a legacy that lasts in time and benefts the coordinator whole society: a real legacy before, during and after the Games. Part of this legacy has already been assured: for the frst time in the Olympic History, the sport programme of the YOG will see gender equality with the same number of male and female athletes. This, added to the diffusion of sports, will make our legacy become more tangible with the construction of the Youth Olympic Village (YOV) and the refurbishments in existing sports venues. Always keeping in mind our working values– Happiness, Sustainability and Innovation – and our Principles – Empathy and Community, Tolerance and Inclusion, Passion and Commitment –, we aim to deliver a successful, unique, meaningful and innovative edition of the YOG, specially developed by the youth and for the youth. On behalf of the BAYOGOC, I am honoured to present to you the frst edition of the NOC Bulletin of Buenos Aires 2018. We look forward to share with you our journey to Buenos Aires 2018 and we trust everyone in your team will have a wonderful experience in our modern, vibrant and exciting city. Leandro Larrosa Chief Executive Offcer Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee 1st Edition - February 2017 Bulletin BUENOS AIRES 2018 INTRODUCING THE HEAD OF NCS Dear National Olympic Committees, It is my pleasure to be addressing you in occasion of the frst NOC Bulletin of Buenos Aires 2018. I am eager to work with you in the delivery of the 3rd Summer Youth Olympic Games and I am confdent that we will build a great relationship in the years to come. But frst, I would like you to know a little more my background. I studied Sport Administration and Public Relations and I started my career in the world of multisport events as a volunteer in the Pan American Games Rio 2007. After this amazing experience, I moved to Singapore in 2009 in order to join the team of the 1st Summer Youth Olympic Games where I worked as a Team Leader for the Americas in the NOC Relations Division. After the great success of Singapore 2010, I returned to Buenos Aires and started working at the Argentine Olympic Committee (AOC) in the General Manager’s team. While working at the AOC, I had the chance to be part of the Local Organising Committee of the 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires in 2013 as the Coordinator of the Volunteer Programme. I joined the BAYOGOC in 2014, where I was a part of the Planning, Coordination & Integration Direction until the activation of the NOC Services function. As part of the BAYOGOC team, I also participated in the Observer Programme in Nanjing 2014 and had the great opportunity to work during Games time in the NOC Services Centre in the Toronto 2015 Pan American Games, Lillehammer 2016 and Rio 2016. The NOC Services Team will be composed of a highly motivated young and proactive group of people. We aim to be innovative and sustainable in the development of our work and policies in line with the spirit of the YOG to be an accelerator, an incubator and a way of understanding what young people want. I look forward to the next years of getting to know each and every one of you in the Buenos Aires 2018 amazing journey. Laura E. Canals Cruz Head of NOC Services Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee 1st Edition - February 2017 Bulletin BUENOS AIRES 2018 ABOUT ARGENTINA AND BUENOS AIRES About Argentina Argentina is located in the southern cone of South America, sharing its borders with Chile to the west across the Andes Mountains; with Bolivia and Paraguay to the north; Brazil to the northeast and Uruguay and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Argentina is the second largest country in Latin America and the eighth largest country in the world. Our country is divided into 23 provinces plus the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires which behold different landscapes, accents and customs. Each and every one of them is unique and defnitely worth knowing. The great fow of immigrants who arrived to our country has strongly infuenced the varied and unique culture of Argentina and especially of the City of Buenos Aires. The city was infuenced by diverse foreign cultures, mixed and blended with that time’s local culture. Immigrants brought their customs and traditions which had a major infuence on culture, sports and gastronomy. The city of Buenos Aires borders in the north-east with the Río de la Plata (literally River of Silver), the southern and southeast by the Matanza River, also known as “Riachuelo”, and the northwest, west and southwest by the Province of Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires is a cosmopolitan city with a rich cultural life, offering a wide variety of sport, gastronomic and cultural activities all year round. You will fnd a multicultural city, with different ethnic and religious groups coexisting and creating the cultural patrimony. Source: INDEC (National Institute In October, when the Youth Olympic Games will take place, it is springtime, and of Statistics and Census) therefore, one of the most beautiful times of the year for Buenos Aires. Useful information about Argentina and the City of Buenos Aires Total area of Argentina: 2,780,400 km2 Total population of Argentina: 40,117,096 (according to the 2010 census) Recognised languages: Spanish, Guaraní (in Corrientes province), Qom, Mocoví and Wichi (in Chaco province) Currency: Argentine Peso (AR$) Total area of the City of Buenos Aires: 203km2 Total population of the City of Buenos Aires: 2.890.151 Total population of the Metropolitan/Greater Buenos Aires: 12.741.364 Demonym: porteño (m) and porteña (f) 1st Edition - February 2017 Bulletin BUENOS AIRES 2018 Some fun facts about the City of Buenos Aires • Natives of Buenos Aires are known as porteños, literally ‘people from the port’, a reference to the city population’s immigrant roots. • Argentine Spanish spoken in and around Buenos Aires is distinctly different from that spoken elsewhere in Latin America. Aside from a heavy accent, the language is peppered with lunfardo, a local slang derived from the era of tango. The language was heavily infuenced by the large amount of Italian immigration in the frst half of the twentieth century. • Buenos Aires has more theatres, football stadiums and psychiatrists per capita than any other city in the world! • In Buenos Aires (and Argentina in general) the standard greeting is one kiss on the right cheek, both for men and for women. • Every 20th July is National Friends’ Day, a day specially devoted to hanging out Source: Buenos Aires City with your buddies and telling them how lucky they are to have you as a friend. Tourist Board BUENOS AIRES 2018 EMBLEM Our source of inspiration for the identity of the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games could not be other than our own city: it’s not-so-hidden spots, iconic architecture, neighbourhoods and culture. We took the city’s infnity of vibrant colours to truly capture its essence, diversity and versatility. The colours and shapes used in Buenos Aires 2018’s emblem clearly mirror the city’s personality. Every corner of our city is present in the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games, even in the Game´s emblem. Watch the video and see how we created each of the elements of the emblem that will identify us throughout these years flled with sports, culture, education, friendship and more! WATCH THE VIDEO 1st Edition - February 2017 Bulletin BUENOS AIRES 2018 SPORT QUALIFICATION SYSTEMS & NEW SPORTS New sports in Buenos Aires 2018 On Wednesday December 8th, the International Olympic Committee Executive Board approved three new sports to be included in the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games Sports Programme: Dance Sport, Karate and Sport Climbing. Dance Sport Qualifcation systems & Event programme You may refer to the NOCnet for the Buenos Aires 2018 Qualifcation Systems & Event Programme.