Singapore - As the clock starts ticking down to Saturday's start of the inaugural Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in Singapore, many of the 3,600 young athletes to compete in 26 sports will already tremble with excitement.Many Singaporeans, however, chose to give the Olympic spirit the cold shoulder, despite the government's tireless efforts to generate a YOG buzz.
According to an internet poll conducted by the Channel News Asia website in late July, 88 per cent of 6,430 respondents said they were "not interested at all" to watch the Olympics for athletes from the ages of 14 to 18 from 205 National Olympic Committees.
A recent street poll of 100 people by the Straits Times newspaper showed that more than half of the participants were curious about the games and planned to catch some of the action on TV, but many had very poor knowledge about the event. Full story
