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08:10, July 05, 2007 |
Ten lucky families became the winners of the "Olympic Families Tour Beijing" competition, the Beijing Olympic Games organizers said on Wednesday.
The 10 families, five from China and five from abroad, will be financed by the Games organizers to visit Beijing and co-host cities next month for an Olympic-themed tour.
International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge sent a special a message for the families selected to tour the Olympic cities, "I wish [you] the best of luck. This is going to be an exciting adventure and if [you] have the privilege to go to Beijing then [your Olympic] dream will come true."
The five international winning families of the Olympic FamiliesTour Beijing campaign are: "gotobeijing" and "usa1776" from the United States; "BOCHAMDQ" from Argentina; "go Hong Kong" from South Africa and "Greenlink" from Germany.
Launch on April 9 on the official website www.beijing2008.cn, the campaign has attracted participation by 12,363 families with 316 from the rest of the world.
All of the families used their family stories platform to sharewith the world their unique Olympic experiences. Some families even went the extra mile, like "usa1776," who created a personal family website for the campaign.
All these efforts were aimed at convincing voters of their enthusiasm for the Olympic Movement and to gain the voters' support to become one of the lucky Olympic Families.
Enthusiasm has not been limited to just the participating families. Visitors to the official BOCOG website and China Mobile users also exhibited eagerness for the campaign, with close to eight million visitors to the Olympic Families Tour Beijing site.
During the first phase of online voting, a total of four million votes were cast by website visitors; during the second phase, 1.43 million votes were cast via the website or by SMS for the 100 campaign finalist families.
Blogs set up by the 50 campaign finalist families from China saw 2.3 million visits in over one month.
Source: Xinhua
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