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Team USA (l-r) includes Coach Tom Violette, Luc Violette, Cora Farrell, Ben Richardson, and Cait Flannery.
Norway. Te 10-day competition for athletes between the ages of 15 and 18 will feature all 15 sport disciplines on the program for the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games. More than 1,100 athletes from nearly 70 na- tions are expected to participate. Te Youth Olympic Games are an international multi-sport event held
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every two years consistent with the current format of the Olympic Games. A hallmark of the event is a unique culture and education program – Learn & Share – that is designed to equip athletes with the skills they need to suc- ceed both on and off the field of play. Te 62-member U.S. roster is comprised of 42 men and 20 women – an
increase from the 57 athletes who represented Team USA at the inaugu- ral Winter Youth Olympic Games that took place in Innsbruck, Austria, in 2012. Team USA will be represented in all 15 sport disciplines. Tat list includes curling’s team of Luc Violette (Lake Stevens, Wash.),
Cora Farrell (Fairbanks, Alaska), Ben Richardson (Issaquah, Wash.), and Cait Flannery (Mankato, Minn.). Te team is coached by Tom Violette (Lake Stevens, Wash.). Building on the successful debut of the Winter Youth Olympic Games in
2012, the Lillehammer 2016 Games will feature 70 medal events, including several innovative events that are not on the Olympic program. Among the non-Olympic events are a skills challenge in ice hockey, and mixed gender
he United States Olympic Committee announced the 62-member 2016 U.S. Youth Olympic Team that will compete at the second Winter Youth Olympic Games from Feb. 12-21 in Lillehammer,
and/or mixed country team events for alpine skiing, biathlon, curling, luge, figure skating, Nordic skiing, speedskating, and a combination of freestyle skiing and snowboarding. Te 2016 program also features seven new medal events – including the debut of monobob, cross-country cross, biathlon su- per sprint and a Nordic team event – as well as a mass start event for speed- skating, which will debut in Lillehammer before appearing on the Olympic program in 2018. Beginning Feb. 12, sixteen countries will compete in the curling portion
of the event. Two pools of eight teams will compete in an initial seven-game round robin to determine playoff teams. Aſter the medal games are com- pleted for the team portion, the focus will switch to mixed doubles where athletes will be paired with someone from another country to compete for medals Feb. 19-21. Te competition schedule is posted on the next page. Non-athlete participants are also an integral part of the Youth Olympic
Games experience. Aſter being named the first Youth Olympic Games Am- bassador for the Winter Youth Olympic Games in 2012, three-time Olym- pian Lindsey Vonn (alpine skiing) will reprise her role for the 2016 Games. Additionally, U.S. Olympic medalists Hannah Kearney (freestyle skiing), Ross Powers (snowboarding) and Molly Schaus (ice hockey) are among the 15 athletes selected by the IOC to serve as Athlete Role Models in Lilleham- mer. Coverage of the 2016 U.S. Youth Olympic Team can be found at Tea-
mUSA.org/Lillehammer2016 and Team USA’s social channels utilizing #Lillehammer2016. n
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