Richard Pound from Canada, the only IOC-internal critical voice in question of the Youth Olympic Games, waived the trip to Singapore, where almost all of the currently 113 IOC members meet these days.“It would be hypocritical to spend even more of the IOC's money to come to something in which I do not believe”, says Pound. Instead of going to Singapore he went on vacation. His absence is a blow for the IOC President Jacques Rogge. Full story
