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2ᵉ édition Mara’Monde
Coupe du Monde de Maracana – Mara’Monde
CAMEROUN 2026

📅 Du 25 septembre au 08 octobre 2026
📍 À Yaoundé, Cameroun

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🔵 Why the Olympic Games should be reserved for athletes aged 18 and over

This position is not driven by emotion, fear, or nostalgia.
It is based on Olympic logic, education, and institutional coherence.

1️⃣ A fundamental contradiction in the Olympic system

The Youth Olympic Games (YOG) are open to athletes aged 15 to 18.
They were created to:

* protect young athletes,
* introduce them to the Olympic environment,
* transmit Olympic values,
* and prepare them progressively for elite competition.

👉 Allowing adolescents to compete directly in the Olympic Games undermines the very purpose of the Youth Olympic Games.

If a teenager can already compete at the Olympic Games:

* why create a Youth Olympic platform at all?
* why speak about progression and education?
* why claim we are protecting young athletes?

2️⃣ The Olympic Games are not a neutral space for minors

The Olympic Games are:

* a global media event,
* a stage of political, economic, and national pressure,
* an environment where performance often outweighs personal development.

A minor:

* does not yet carry full legal responsibility,
* may lack the psychological maturity required,
* can easily become a medal-producing asset rather than a human being in formation.

👉 Olympism should never justify sacrificing childhood for spectacle.

3️⃣ This is not about talent, but about responsibility

Saying "they are good enough” is not an Olympic argument.

Olympism is also about:

* responsibility,
* maturity,
* and the ability to fully understand and consent to an extreme competitive environment.

Being talented at 15 or 16 does not mean being ready to carry:

* the weight of a nation,
* relentless media exposure,
* or lifelong pressure built in a few weeks.

4️⃣ A clear rule, with a coherent exception

🧭 Proposed principle:

* ✔️ Olympic Games: minimum age of 18
* ✔️ Strictly limited exception: 17-year-old athletes who have already competed in at least one edition of the Youth Olympic Games

Why this exception?

* Because these athletes already know the Olympic environment,
* because they have benefited from an educational framework,
* because they are not discovering the Games through the brutality of elite sport.

👉 This is not an exception based on early talent, but an exception based on pathway and preparation.

🏁 Conclusion

The Olympic Games should represent the culmination of a journey,
not a shortcut to glory.

Protecting young athletes:

* does not limit sport,
* it restores meaning, coherence, and credibility to Olympism.

💬 Open debate
Should the Olympic Games remain a competition for adults?
Do the Youth Olympic Games still make sense if teenagers can already compete at the Olympics?

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