SINGAPORE (AP) — International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge says some countries regret not sending their top athletes to the inaugural Youth Olympics in Singapore.
Rogge said at a news conference Thursday those countries had promised that their best teenage athletes will participate at the next Youth Games in Nanjing, China, in 2014.
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