Ser Miang Ng, who helped lead Singapore to host the first Youth Olympic Games in 2010 believes the next IOC president needs to work on connecting young people to the Olympic Movement.
"3.5 billion youth under the age of 25, about half of the world’s population. Not many of them will become Olympians and many of them will not get the chance to practice sport. Not many of them are touched," Ng tells Around the Rings.
"When we talk about reaching out to youth, we are saying that youth is our future. If we don’t do something now, then there’s really no future…we’re just talking," he says.
Ng, 61, an IOC vice president, joined the IOC in 1998. He’s a diplomat and businessman by profession.
Ng wants to summon all IOC members to a retreat in Olympia to plot new directions for the IOC. He believes more flexibility is needed to change the Olympic program. On the questions of allowing visits to bid cities and raising the retirement age for IOC members, Ng says debate is needed first.
In his 28-page manifesto, Ng says he wants IOC members to be empowered.
"I hear a lot about the desire of members to be more actively involved and I believe in empowering the members to do their job as IOC members. I believe in empowerment, which means they should be involved in all major decisions," Ng says.
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