Dear Friends,

The year that we have entered is an Olympic year, with the Winter Olympic Games of Vancouver approaching.

I am sure that our Canadian friends will organise excellent Games and will offer thousands of young men and women the opportunity to demonstrate their skills.

The countries of the Mediterranean Basin are rich in high level athletes. I am convinced that they will successfully take up the challenge of the Vancouver Olympic Games and make us proud.

The year 2010 is also an important year as Singapore will host the first Youth Olympic Games (YOG). Our mediterranean family is once again called to present its best potential of young athletes.

But this year is also important for the functionning of the ICMG.

The new commissions take action on their fields of competence, the ICMG web site is enriched with important information and its content will soon be availlable in arabic.

This new year also marks the beginning of the period separating the two Mediterranean Games editions of Pescara and Volos. During this laps of time, the ICMG will spare no effort in order to help our friends of the Organising Committee VOLOS 2013 to implement effectively the procedure of preparation and make this 17th edition of the Games a sports and cultural event of high quality.