Beijing Olympic organizers on Sunday kicked off another round of
campaign to solicit a theme song for the 2008 Games.
The deadline to submit candidate songs is March 10, 2008, and a
cash reward of 20,000 yuan (about US$2,565) will be given to each
of the 25 winners selected by a panel of professional musicians,
the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games (BOCOG)
said in a press release.
The worldwide solicitation, which has entered the fourth edition
of its kind, also targets a theme song for the 2008 Paralympic
Games as well as theme songs for torch relay and ceremonies
events.
The theme song for the 2008 Olympics, to be picked from all the
entries of the four editions, will be unveiled 100 days before the
opening ceremony of the Games, said BOCOG.
The Beijing Olympics take place from Aug. 8 to 24, 2008.
(Xinhua News Agency January 22, 2007)