More than 1,000 pieces of Olympic treasures will go on display
in China this summer as part of the celebrations to mark the
one-year countdown to the 2008 Olympic Games, organizers announced
on Sunday.
"The IOC Olympic Treasure Exhibition China Tour, the first one
outside Europe in the history of the International Olympic
Committee, will start on August 8, 2007 and last for one year until
the 2008 Games open in Beijing," Liu Qingzao, an official from the
organizing committee, told a press conference.
The exhibition, jointly hosted by the IOC, the Chinese Olympic
Committee and the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Games
(BOCOG), will be held in 14 cities across China, including Beijing,
Shanghai and Hong Kong.
It will showcase torches, medals, artworks, mascots, sports
equipments, souvenir, Olympic stamps as well as audio-video and
pictures recording the opening and closing ceremonies of previous
Olympic Games.
"The IOC Olympic Treasure Exhibition Tour of China brings the
Olympic Museum to China for the first time and demonstrates the
core Olympic value to Chinese people. Let us share the same Olympic
dream with the world," IOC president Jacques Rogge was quoted as
saying in a letter of congratulation.
(Xinhua News Agency April 23, 2007)