Beijing 2008: Official Magazine of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, were awarded to Beijing, China after an exhaustive ballot of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on July 13, 2001. The games will be celebrated from August 8, 2008 to August 24, 2008, with the opening ceremony commencing at 08:08pm and 08 seconds.

Some events, including football (soccer), sailing, and new 10 km swimming marathon events will be held in other cities of China. With the equestrian events being held in Hong Kong, this marks the second time the same edition of the Olympic Games has been hosted by two National Olympic Committees (NOCs).

The official logo of the games, titled "Dancing Beijing," features a stylized calligraphic character jīng (京, meaning capital), referencing the host city. The mascots of Beijing 2008 are the five Fuwa (formerly known as the "friendlies"), each representing one color of the Olympic rings. The motto of the Games is "One World, One Dream." The games will consist of 302 events in 28 sports, just one event more than the Athens games of 2004. In addition to new events, several new NOCs that may compete at the games have been recognized by the IOC.

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"One World, One Dream"

Beijing Olympic Theme Slogan embodies wisdom of all

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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