Youth Olympics

22 athletes and eight officials make up the team which is in Buenos Aires for the 10 day event.

Vanuatu will compete against 4000 athletes aged 15-18 from over 200 countries.

Chef de Mission, Yannick Jacobe, said the Youth Olympics would teach the athletes a lot.

"Those youth events are really important for us because it is showing the way to go for the athletes and what are the top level players," he said.

The team returned home last week from the Under 17 Beach Handball World Championship in Mauritius, where they defeated Australia twice and the host nation.

American Samoa and Australia represented Oceania against 14 other countries.

Captain Fiapa'ipa'i Fanene said everybody brought their game and they know what needs to be improved on.

"Oh I'm ready (to go to Argentina). I want to take it. Me and my girls have got to work really hard for this since we are the first team (from American Samoa) to be in the Olympics so it's exciting," she said.