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Ciara Losty, a lecturer in the Department of Health, Sport & Exercise Science has been selected by the Olympic Council of Ireland to provide sports psychology support for the Irish team preparing for the Youth Olympic Games to be held in Singapore from August 14-26.

The Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games will feature some 3,600 athletes representing more than 200 National Olympic Committees (NOCs), along with 1,200 media representatives; 20,000 local and international volunteers and more than 370,000 spectators. Young athletes - aged between 14 and 18 years - will compete in 26 sports and take part in a culture and education programme.

The Irish team includes young athletes identified as having high potential with Waterford race walker Kate Veale among them. The Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games aim to inspire young people to embrace the Olympic values of excellence, friendship and respect.

Ciara Losty who has just returned from a training camp in Bucharest, Romania with the Irish squad for the Youth Olympic Games said it is “an honour” to be involved in preparing the team. “This is a great group of focused young people to work with and their commitment to the sports they participate in is really inspirational.

“The Games in August will be a huge event in Singapore and the Irish squad are really looking forward to representing their country in competition with individuals and teams from right around the world. The Youth Olympic Games is of a huge scale and you get some sense of that from the fact that there will be 7,000 performers involved in the opening ceremony and the host city team in Singapore are planning a 24-hour kitchen to serve 21,000 healthy meals to the young athletes.”

Separately, Waterford Institute of Technology are partners with the Paralympic Council of Ireland in preparing Ireland’s elite Paralympic athletes for the London 2012 Paralympic Games.

The partnership places the Institute as the centre of excellence for the physiological preparation of the Irish team. Bruce Wardrop, exercise physiologist at WIT, will develop and implement the Irish team’s preparation strategy.

In addition, sports science and other facilities at the Institute will be used to track the performance and training progress of the Irish athletes in the countdown to London 2012.

•    Further information is available at www.wit.ie and www.singapore2010.sg