From former sporting champions acting as athlete mentors for the budding young athletes to volunteers and officials across 12 sports, giving up their time to support the young stars and ensure the smooth running and fair play at events. Amongst the group of supporters were seven young reporters who produced a four page supplement for the Sheffield Star newspaper. Their job? To act as real life journalists and report on all the sporting action, interview the athletes, athlete mentors and former and current Olympic champions. They were even put through the paces by BBC sports writer, Matt Slater.

Over the next few days, we'll be featuring some of their work and photos that were captured at the Games. Look out for some fantastic articles uploaded here over the next few days, written live from the Games by some talented budding young journalists including:

Megan Barlow from Halifax (14),

Emily Dingley from Harrogate (17)

Ellie Corbett from York (15)

Reece Matthews from York (14)

Jordan Gant from York (14)

Regan Miles from Essex (14)

Ashley Stewart from Halifax (15)