Beijing Olympic Theme - One World One Dream
Author Time: 01-02-2008 Source:
An official with the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) today made a comment on a lawsuit filed by Fang Shouwei at an intermediate court in Beijing's Haidian District. Fang has claimed the credit for the event's official slogan "One World One Dream."
According to the official, BOCOG launched a global appeal for the theme slogan for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad on January 1, 2005. The campaign lasted for 31 days and received over 210,000 entries. Having reviewed all the entries one by one, the BOCOG staff picked out no satisfactory proposals from the English and Chinese entries.
BOCOG then organized several seminars, attended by a number of well-known domestic experts and foreign friends living in China, to hear their opinions. Many Olympic experts in the world also contributed their suggestions to BOCOG.
The official slogan "One World One Dream" was finally confirmed based on careful studies and debates. The Executive Board of BOCOG listened to and the International Olympic Committee approved the theme slogan subsequently. On June 26, 2005, BOCOG publicized the slogan. BOCOG is sincerely grateful to all participants in the solicitation campaign, holding that the brilliant theme slogan embodies the painstaking efforts and wisdom of all.
The official said BOCOG had carefully combed all the submissions one by one and found neither proposals under the name of Fang Shouwei, nor any emails or registered paper submissions of "One World One Dream" to BOCOG's designated email account or mailing address during the campaign.
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