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Discussion: Competition: through the Olympics, through the life |
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15:08, August 06, 2007 |
Time: 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm, August 7, 2007
Host: PD Online Forum
Guest Speakers: Mitch Robinson, USA, teacher of American Society and Culture, Tsinghua Universtiy;
Yang Yuan, China, winner of the top prize for the Second Beijing College Students English-Speaking Contest for "Olympics in my heart", a math major of Peking University
Live broadcast: click here
Background
While Beijing is giving the finishing touches to its preparations for the 29th Olympic Games, athletes around the world are spurting toward the starting point of their highest glory --- the Olympic medals. About 550-570 Chinese athletes and 600 American athletes, for example, will vie to be the best in the 28 categories of games next year.
In fact, competitions around the Olympics always go even before and beyond the game. A city has to compete to be the host. A business has to compete for the advertising space for their brand-building. An athlete has to compete for the access to the playfield. A volunteer applicant has to compete to get the chance of offering services for the event. Even a viewer has to compete in some cases to get a ticket to the venue where he/she watches his/her favorite games and stars.
For those who are never part of the Olympic Games or any sport games, competition is still part of their life.
How do we live with competition --- in the games like the Olympics and in our life --- when we are either winners or losers, or even just viewers? What lessons about competition can we learn from the Olympics which are one of the most intense, fairest, most participated competition events in the world?
Profile of guest speakers
On June 2, 2007 Mitch Robinson raised a question as a question master at the semi-finals of the Second Beijing College Students English-Speaking Contest for "Olympics in my heart" at Tsinghua University, Beijing. Mr. Robinson is a native of Mississippi, USA. He got his masters degrees in International Law and International Relations in the UK, the University of Edinburgh and the University of Wales respectively after he graduated from Birmingham-Southern College in Alabama, one of the top liberal arts colleges in the USA. Since 2005, he has been teaching American Society and Culture at Tsinghua University, one of China's most prestigious universities. He will leave Beijing for the University of Geneva in September for his Ph.D. study. 
On July 30, Yang Yuan takes a photo as one of the guest speakers of the interview "Volunteers: the corner stone of Olympics" at the studio of People's Daily Online. Yang Yuan, born in Beijing, is a math major at Peking University, one of the top universities in China. He graduated from the prestigious Beijing Fourth High School. On June 16, 2007, he won the top prize of the Second Beijing College Students English-speaking Contest, of which the Beijing Olympics was the theme. By People's Daily Online
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