Sri Lanka released a single stamp on 12 August 2010 to commemorate the 1st YOG (Youth Olympic Games), held in Singapore. The colourful stamp features the official games mascots Merly and Lyo, and icons representing various sports and activities for the games participants.
Bulgaria released the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games issue on 30 July 2010. The single stamp, with a denomination of 1.40 leva, was issued in sheetlets of 4 stamps, with official sports icons decorating the sheetlet border. The stamp is just illustrated with the official logo of the games, with the silhouettes of runners at the top left corner. The sports represented with icons on the borders are badminton, canoeing, basketball, judo, weightlifting, equestry, rowing, gymnastics, sailing, football (soccer), boxing and athletics. The same sheetlet of 4 is also available in gray-scale, with no denomination on the stamps.
I recently come across this set of Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games issue from Paraguay. The set has 2 stamps, one featuring tennis and the other shows some youth participants of the games. I have not found out the issue date, and would appreciate help from any quarter on this matter.
I finally managed to get hold of a complete sheet of the Armenian issue for the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games. I had previously implied that the sheet selvage is printed with 14 different sports logos; I was wrong, the actual number of logos printed is 15, but only 11 different sports were represented. The sports so represented are athletics, football (soccer), weightlifting, shooting, gymnastics, rowing, taekwando, water polo, cycling, hockey and tennis.
The Armenian Post released the 2010 Singapore Youth Olympic Games on 26 November 2010. The stamp features representative icons for 3 sports - weightlifting, wrestling and boxing. The icons on the stamp are not the official ones for the Youth Olympics, however, the official icons are printed on the sheet margins. The stamp is issued in sheets of 2 x 5 stamps, so there are 14 different icons on a sheet.
The 2-stamp Indonesian issue for the 2010 Singapore Youth Olympics was supposed to have been released 15 July 2010. However, I did not see anything on the Internet about it, until late October, posted on eBay for sale! The 2 se-tenant stamps together feature 2 badminton players in the foreground; and in the background are silhouettes of youth handling musical instruments, the obvious one is the angklong on the left stamp, and probably a brass gong on the right one.
The Romanian authority released the 1st Youth Olympic Games issue on 12 August 2010, in the form of a souvenir sheet. The single stamp on the sheet features a winner's medal over books, a certificate and a mortarboard head-dress, emphasizing the importance of the theme of education for the youth. The sheet selvage is decorated with the games mascots Lyo and Merly.
For the 1st Youth Olympic Games, Serbia issued a single stamp on 14 August 2010. The design on the stamp features a series of athlete silhouettes forming a circle, representing the sports of basketball, diving, handball, sprinting, volleyball, cycling, table tennis, badminton, and judo. The stamp was released in sheet of 8 with a central label featuring volleyball and a runner off a running block.
Pakistan released a stamp to commemorate the 1st Youth Olympic Games held in Singapore on 14 August 2010. The design shows silhouettes of athletes in the sports of long jump, basketball, running, javelin, volleyball, discus & hammer.
Vanuatu issued on 14 August 2010, a souvenir sheet in the shape of a wavey flag, commemorating the 1st Youth Olymic Games held in Singapore. The single stamp on the souvenir sheet features netball and football, whereas the sheet selvage carries the figures illustrating the sports like basketball, volleyball, boxing, badminton, gymnastics, athletics and hockey.
The Bolivian post released a set of 2 stamps on 8 September 2010 to commemorate the 1st Youth Olympic Games held in Singapore (14-26 August). This is the first country I know outside Singapore that has issued more than 1 stamp for this event. The sports featured on the stamps are football, cycling, swimming and athletics.
This is the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games MyStamp sheetlet, the size is that of a A5 sheet, in horizontal mode. It was released on the games opening day, 14 August 2010; priced at SGD15.50 at post offices, it comes in a hard board folder. There are 2 large panes on the sheetlet, the top pane shows the 2010 YOG logo, and the lower one displays the games mascots, Lyo and Merly. This sheet is supposedly available with the panes available for personalisation, i.e. one can send in a couple of photos to be printed on these panes. This is a very innovative idea for the games, because I can think of games participants printing their moments of victory on these panes! I understand that this sheetlet was sold out within a week of release.
New Caledonia issued the stamp commemorating the Singapore Youth Olympic Games on 6 August 2010. The stamp features multiple disciplines in the track and field events: sprint, hurdle, shot put, javelin & pole vault.
Lithuania issued the stamp commemorating the Singapore Youth Olympic Games on 31 July 2010 The stamp features basketball, which will be played at the SYOG with each team comprising 3 players!
France released the YOG stamp 16 June 2010. It looks like "Youth" is the theme that is emphasized, rather than sports, as the stamp design does not contain any image related to sports; the design has the Singapore business district waterfront, the skyscrapers mostly belong to big banks located in the city, and a bunch of youth of many races.
This MyStamp sheetlet was released to mark the introduction of the mascots for the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games (SYOG) - Lyo & Merly, on 21st November 2009. The sheet contains the original 4 stamps issued on 14 August 2009 to mark the 1-year countdown to the opening of the games, and labels with the SYOG logo, and the mascots. The orange creature is Lyo, a young lion, and the blue one is called Merly, supposed to be a youth version of the Merlion .... hmm ... looks that the juvenile Merlion has legs! The remaining question now is whether merlions lay eggs or have life birth ...
