Video Reveals Cute 'Child Olympics'?

Paris is ready to host the Summer time Olympics for the third time in 2024, having beforehand hosted the occasion in 1900 and 1924.  Though the Olympics shouldn’t have a common age requirement for contributors, the youngest athlete within the 2020 Tokyo Olympics was aged 12.

In June 2024, a video went viral on social media, allegedly displaying scenes from an Olympic Video games for infants. “Child Olympics are so enjoyable to look at,” one X put up with the video learn. The video featured toddlers from totally different international locations competing in occasions comparable to weightlifting and the “10 meter toddle,” accompanied by Olympic-style commentary.

The video was additionally shared in early 2024 on different social media platforms, comparable to Instagram, Reddit, TikTok and X (previously Twitter).

Briefly, we discovered that the video was genuine and was posted to the official Olympics YouTube channel in April 2017. Nevertheless, as a result of it didn’t depict an official Olympic Video games for infants, we have now rated this declare as “Miscaptioned.”

The video with the title “If Cute Infants Competed within the Olympic Video games” was posted to the Olympics YouTube channel with the outline “Just a few particular infants can take house the gold at this Child Video games.”

A behind-the-scenes video on the official Olympics website confirmed how the deliberately humorous (and lovely) footage was captured. 

(www.olympics.com)

In February 2018, the Olympics revealed an identical video with the title “If Cute Infants Competed within the Winter Video games.” 

Whereas there are not any Olympic Video games for infants, an identical initiative has emerged in Bahrain, a small Arab nation on the Persian Gulf, the place the Bahrain Olympic Committee has organized a sequence of “Child Olympics” competitions for younger youngsters. An article revealed by Gulf Every day Information, an English-language newspaper in Bahrain, quoted the BOC’s director of sport initiatives administration as saying the occasion was impressed by the viral 2017 “Child Olympics” video.

“The thought of the Child Video games initially took place after the BOC members attended the Affiliation of Nationwide Olympic Committees (ANOC) Congress in 2017 in Prague and we watched a humorous and emotional Worldwide Olympic Committee video in regards to the Child Olympic Video games,” he added. “We determined then to provoke a nationwide Olympic recreation for infants in Bahrain which was an actual success.”

A Every day Tribune Information of Bahrain article from 2018 mentioned about 1,200 youngsters from 66 nurseries and kindergartens participated within the “First Bahrain Video games, the most important youngsters sports activities occasion within the Kingdom.”

(Every day Tribune Information of Bahrain)

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