Future stars emerge from Youth Olympics
Xinhua, August 28, 2014 Adjust font size:
Who can make the world sports stars after the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games (YOG), which is staged for athletes aged 15-18 from around the world? Who can be the future Olympic champions?
Olympic champion Ruta Meilutyte just for fun at Youth Games
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Olympic and world champion Ruta Meilutyte of Lithuania won the women's 50-meter breaststroke at the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games. [Xinhua] |
How could somebody who already won an Olympic gold be eligible for the Youth Olympics? Well, Ruta Meilutyte stunned in London when she was 15. It's just a "experience journey" for the reigning Olympic 100m breaststroke champion Meilutyte to attend the Nanjing YOG.
She is already a big star before she arrived in Nanjing. The Lithuanian girl is the 50m and 100m breakstroke world records holder. At the Youth Olympics, she's 2 seconds faster in 100m breakstroke than her closest rival. It's a similar case in the 50m breakstroke, she has almost a whole body lead over the second finisher. Meilutyte is quite likely to dominate her events in the Rio Olympics.
