First we conceived and staged the Nelson
Mandela-led event What Makes a Champion?™
Sydney 2000. Next we are planning to execute an even bigger event
for the Beijing 2008 Olympics.
When: 4 and 5 August 2008
Where: Peking University, Beijing
What Makes a Champion?™ Beijing 2008 will involve
Champions from across Asia and the participating Olympic nations.
This will be an event that again reinvigorates the intellectual
face of the Olympic Games by blending sport with culture and education.
China is the ideal country to develop a new dimension for the
Olympic movement. After all, this ancient culture, its history
rich in innovation and achievement, is perfectly positioned to
focus the spirit and the momentum of the Olympics on its journey
into the future, following its return to its spiritual home
in Athens in 2004.
A forum of international representatives will congregate just
prior to the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
The speakers will be champions of all fields of human endeavor:
sports, music, art, politics, business, and education. The event
will be a forum for intellectual debate with facilitation, agenda
and resolution. It sees the glorious return of the intellectual
component of Olympism.
What Makes a Champion?™ 2008 is jointly organised
by the Centre for the Mind and
Peking University. As an official Olympic Cultural Event, it is
supported by the Beijing Organising Committee for the Games of
the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) and the International Olympic Committee
(IOC). The
forum will also form part of Peking University's 110th anniversary
celebrations.
If your organisation is interested in becoming involved in this
exciting, innovative project, please contact info@centreforthemind.com.
Click
here for to link to the Chinese-language
What Makes a Champion?™ Beijing 2008
web site
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