European Youth Olympic Festival opens in Netherlands
Baku, July 16 (AZERTAC). The European Youth Olympic Festival, a biennial sporting event for talented young participants from all over Europe, has opened in the Netherlands.
Azerbaijani Ambassador to the Netherlands Mir-Hamza Efendiyev, King of the Netherlands Willem-Alexander Claus George Ferdinand, International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge, Dutch Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport in the Netherlands Edith Ingeborg Schippers, Governor of the Utrecht city Aalt Wolfsen attended the opening ceremony.
EYOF is a perfect warm-up for the ‘real’ Olympics. There’s an opening and closing ceremony and of course an Olympic Flame and Olympic Flag.
The nine Olympic sports that are part of the EYOF are: athletics, basketball, cycling, gymnastics, handball, judo, gymnastics, swimming, tennis and volleyball. All these sports are regulated by the rules set by the international sports federation.
Participants of the EYOF can be no older than 18 years, however the different sports have their own age categories. EYOF offers that experience by showing them all aspects of the real Olympic Games.
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