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1ST YOUTH OLYMPICS

87% of the sailors who qualified for the event were former Optimist sailors.

The first ever Youth Olympics held in Singapore in July 2010 were for sailors aged 15 or 16. The boat used was the International Byte.

The Optimist Class has a long tradition of supplying most of the sailors and medallists at the adult Olympics, so we were interested to see how soon