An official Olympic Cultural
Event
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 be opened
by Tony Blair, and 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.
In this second What Makes a Champion?™ forum, extraordinary individuals
from the East and West will participate in four panels to distil
the essence of great accomplishment and especially to discuss how
culture and the society in which we live shape our approach to
championship - championship in the broadest sense across all fields
of endeavour.
In three facilitated panels of conversations, questions and answers,
some of the world’s greatest champions will talk about how
it really is. Not just the up side but the whole story. What
makes them go, what makes them win, what is hard and what comes
easily? Is championship is born or bred.? Is it transferable? Is
it shaped by culture and society?
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.
Click
here for to link to the Chinese-language
What Makes a Champion?™ Beijing 2008
web site
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