Singapore 2010.

If this doesn’t mean anything to you right now, it will in less than 3 months.

This is because Singapore will be the site for the first EVER Youth Olympic Games!

August 14 – 26, 2010.

26 sports, over 200 countries, thousands of athletes, coaches, support staff, officials, volunteers, sponsors, media.

It’s the Olympics folks. Just for Youth aged 14-18. And it’s going to be really special.

Canada is sending a team of over 50 athletes. The absolute best youth athletes our country has to offer. Just like Vancouver, they’re going to be reaching for the top of the podium.

Strong and proud Canadians, unafraid to stand up next to the best in the world, and confident enough to beat them all.

I am going to go help them out. Anything I can do, because as much as this generation of athletes will forge a new definition of Canadian confidence, we’ll also be classically humble and helpful, as always.

Follow the dream right here. There will be a Facebook group and plenty of tweets, just for the Canadian Youth Olympic Team, launched in the next week or so.

The other cool thing is that the athletes will get the chance to take part in the Culture and Education Program, aimed at teaching athletes about Olympism, Skill Development, Healthy Lifestyles, Social Responsibility and Expression.

Go Canada Go – Allez Canada!

Learn more:

http://singapore2010.sg/public/sg2010/en.html

http://www.olympic.org/en/content/YOG/

Wow, it’s been a busy few weeks. Two growing businesses, not to mention all the cool things connected with the Youth Olympic Games, continuing to work on my French, and trying to have a social life. I’d like to put it out there that if anyone figures out how to slow down time, flip me an e-mail. Actually, text, might not have time to read an e-mail.

Ha, that being said, right now is a really exciting time. Along with the COC, we are ramping up for the big Youth Olympic Games this August, (14^th to 26^th), getting the plans implemented, and finding new ways to get the athletes stoked! (Ya, I wrote stoked, it’s nearly midnight, my vocab is waning)

I have to say, spending a minute at The Cube, which is the official Olympic portal for the YOG is enough to get you “stoked”. In the coming weeks I’ll be rolling out all the social media for the Canadian Youth Olympians, and everyone else that’s interested!

Follow my feed to get the real-time updates…it’s the easiest way for me to keep people in the loop. I can’t wait for summer to really hit, and to meet all the athletes. Plus, they will get the chance to experience humanity is a really unique way. I just hope I can make it easy for them to learn and grow at the same time.

Life is kind of awesome right now.

I know for a fact that most of don’t say that often enough. Well, we should. In the venerable words of Louis CK, “Everything is awesome and nobody is happy.” On the point of, “happy”, I have a reminder programmed into my crackberry that plays a chord at noon, (I think it’s a D sharp), saying simply, “Happy?” Sometimes I yell back at the screen, “NO!” At which point I almost always laugh because, hell, that’s ridiculous. Life is always kind of awesome. And we should be thankful.

(I write this in earnest given the current situation in Haiti, for ways to help check out: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Canadians+help+quake+victims/2436887/story.html)

Ok moving on.

ONE

I am getting the opportunity to go to Singapore this summer, with Canada’s athletes, who will compete and experience the first ever Youth Olympic Games! I am called the COC’s YOG Ambassador and well, needless to say, I am totally stoked. Yes, stoked. Apparently, while most college males are stoked, so are most post-college males.

Report: Most College Males Admit To Regularly Getting Stoked

TWO

Damn, my better judgment prohibits me from giving any information related to what I previously determined as a very blog-worthy topic. (I decided not to write about this about 20 seconds ago, sorry) All I can say is that it is AWESOME, and Olympic related. Once it is said and done you’ll hear all about it. Trust me.

THREE

With the Olympics approaching, sport coverage will be everywhere. (Sidenote: the NG Farrell offices are a block from BC Place, and Canada Hockey Place, Olympic celebrations are welcome to find their way here!)

In my role as a BC Athlete Voice Board member, it’s my duty to pump an amazing cause associated with amateur sport. BC sport funding will be cut in half next year, which would be a shame after what will be Canada’s Olympics in every way. Can you help me out? Go to www.thumbsupforfundingsport.ca and help the cause.

Adam Kreek, Thumbs Up for BC's Athletes!

That’s it for now! My three reasons why life is kind of awesome. What are yours?