The 10 winners of the "Olympic Families Tour Beijing"
competition were named yesterday after two months of blogs and
presentations.
The official website of the 2008 Beijing Games named five
Chinese and five foreign families as the best of the 100
short-listed competitors in the Olympic-themed blog writing
contest.
The Chinese winners were: Homenice, Love for Olympics, Angel's
family, Harmonious team and A family of five watching the
Games.Their foreign counterparts are: BOCHAMDQ (Argentina), go Hong
Kong (South Africa), Greenlink (Germany), and gotobeijing and
usa1776 (both the United States).
The online competition, which began on April 9, attracted 12,363
Chinese families and 316 foreign entrants.
Based on their multimedia introductions, 100 families were
chosen to proceed to the blog-writing competition stage. The public
was then invited to vote for their favorite families, either online
or via mobile phone. The 10 families will gather in Beijing by
August 8 to take part in the one-year countdown celebration. They
will tour the Olympic venues and watch some Olympic test events in
Beijing, Qingdao and Hong Kong.
(BOCOG July 5, 2007)