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The 1^st Winter Youth Olympics are nearly here…

The World is getting ready for the Youth Olympics and while it may not yet have gathered the appeal of the main Games, these are the stars of the future and these Games are their time at the moment.

Racer Ready will be covering the racing but if you want to be the media junkie and follow everything that is happening at the Games then in the modern age there are numerous ways you can keep abreast of what is happening:

News, interviews and loads more exclusive content from  Innsbruck 2012  can be viewed on olympic.org and Innsbruck2012.com, while daily highlights will be available on their dedicated YouTube channel, youtube.com/innsbruck2012.

For real-time updates and photos of the Games, check out the Twitter, Flickr and Facebook accounts of the IOC Media and Youth Olympic Games:

twitter.com/youtholympics
facebook.com/youtholympicgames
flickr.com/iocmedia
twitter.com/iocmedia

We wish alpine racers Paul Henderson and Rachelle Rogers good luck and the Freestyle athletes Katie Summerhayes and Tyler Harding best wishes.

The GB Youth Olympic Team also has athletes competing in the Bobsleigh and Skeleton. In all 23 British Youth Athletes are heading to Innsbruck…

The bobsleigh team have realistic hopes of medals so keep your fingers crossed for them!

May the force be with them…..!

THE FULL GB SQUAD

Alpine skiing - Paul Henderson - Edinburgh

Alpine skiing - Rachelle Rogers - Bordon, Hampshire

Biathlon - Calum Irvine - Aviemore

Bobsleigh - Oliver Biddulph - Bridgwater, Somerset

Bobsleigh - James Lelliot - Poole, Dorset

Bobsleigh - Mic McNeil - Blackhill, County Durham

Bobsleigh - Jazmin Sawyers - Stoke-on-Trent

Bobsleigh - Kirsten Emery - Dronfield, Derbyshire

Bobsleigh - Frances Slater - Ware, Hertfordshire

Cross country skiing - Sarah Hale - Dalarna, Sweden

Cross country skiing - Scott Dixon - Aviemore

Curling - Duncan Menzies - Arbroath

Curling - Angharad Ward - Tonbridge, Kent

Curling - Thomas Muirhead - Perthshire

Curling - Rachel Hannen - Hamilton

Figure skating - Edward Carstairs - Nottingham

Figure skating - Millie Paterson - Rotherham

Freestyle skiing - Tyler Harding - Sowerby Bridge, Yorkshire

Freestyle skiing - Katie Summerhayes - Sheffield

Ice hockey - Katherine Gale - Crowthorne

Ice hockey - Lewis Hook - Peterborough

Short-track speed skating - Jack Burrows - Nottingham

Short-track speed skating - Aydin Djemal - Epsom, Surrey