Sam Oldham from Nottingham goes to Singapore as European Youth Olympic gold medallist in the pommel and parallel bars. A football fan, he claims to support both Manchester United and Notts county.
Oliver Golding is one Britain's top young tennis talents. He is the son of a tennis coach and this year he reached the semi final of Junior Wimbledon.
Victoria Ohuruogu will soon be mixing it with her Olympic champion sister Christine. She travels to Singapore as AAA Indoor 400m champion and says her favourite films are The Departed and Donnie Darko.
Carian Scudamore is a showjumper from Pontypridd whose favourite food is her mum's roast dinner and whose best result is a European U18 gold medal in 2009.
Nathan Bailey is competing on the trampoline. He was U13 British Champion two years in a row and his hero is the world record holding trampoline gymnast Jason Burnett.
David Bolarinwa is Team GB's best sprinting prospect - he won silver in the 100m at the World Schools Games in 2009 and his best time is 10.71secs. He apparently loves kebabs and thinks Carl Lewis is the greatest Olympian.
Kieran Martin is a windsurfer born in landlocked Stoke-on-Trent. In 2009 he became the U15 World Champion. His favourite food is a bacon bap and his favourite film is The Longest Yard.
Annie Tagoe, a sprinter born in Ghana, will be looking to build on her season's best times of 11.61 secs over 100m and 24.20secs over 200m. Her favourite film is Baby Boy.
Northern Ireland archery star Mark Nesbitt will be aiming for more success after claiming double gold for Team GB at the 2009 Australian Olympic Festival and silver at both the World and European Junior Championships in 2009.
Edward Nainby-Luxmore and Caspar Jopling currently row for Eton College Boat Club and are aiming for gold in the rowing pairs having won silver at the Junior World Rowing Championships in 2009.
Zack Davies is a GB & Welsh Champion boxer in the 54kg category. His heroes are, naturally, Sugar Ray Leonard and Manny Pacquiao.
Amy Radford, a fencer from Malvern, won bronze at the Junior Commonwealth Games in 2009. Her motto is "one hit at a time" and took up fencing at the age of 9.
The BBC will be covering the Youth Olympics with daily video reports and red button highlights, as well as two 30 minute TV programmes on the Saturday 21st and Sunday 29th of August.
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