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hosting a green Olympic Games.
Some people said that Olympic Games has come and green has come. I want to add that Olympic
Games will leave but green will stay.
I would like to recite “Promise”, a song I wrote seven years ago as an environment adviser to the Beijing
Olympic Games Application Committee. It reads:
Let’s make a green promise, as the bell of the new century is ringing;
For a healthy planet, for the ever-lasting Olympiad,
We promise: retrieve the color of blue for every zone of the sky;
We promise: let every river become crystal clear;
We promise: sowing the seeds of green hope with all our hands;
We promise: everybody chooses the green style of life…
<strong>7th</strong> <strong>World</strong> <strong>Conference</strong> on Sport and the Environment
International Cooperation and Development Dept.
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