Two TTOC Olympic Youth Campers to attend Beijing Olympic Youth Camp.

About 800 teenagers, including 50 physically
challenged youth, from across the world will attend
the Olympic Youth Camp (OYC) during the 2008 Beijing
Olympic Games.

Disabled youths will take part in such an exercise for
the first time in OYC's history.

Every National Olympic Committee will send a girl and
a boy to the 21-day camp, which will be held from
August 6-26, 2008 at the China Youth Center for
International Exchange.

Aged between 16 and 18 years,the youths will get a
first-hand experience of the Olympic ideals of peace,
enterprise, teamwork, sportsmanship, fair play and
participation as well as the unique Chinese culture.

They will watch the Games, visit the Olympic Village,
stay with local families, travel to famous historical
sites and learn Chinese Kongfu and calligraphy, among
other things. Some of them will participate in the
Olympic torch relay, too, attend the 2008 Games'
Opening and Closing Ceremonies and sports events.

The concept of the youth camp originated at the 1912
Stockholm Olympic Games, when King Gustav V invited
1,500 Boy Scouts to set up tents near the Olympic
Stadium. There were no more camps after that till
another Scandinavian city, Helsinki, took up the idea
in 1952. The experience proved so successful that an
OYC has been held during every Olympic Games after
that, except in Melbourne (1956) and Los Angeles
(1984).