One hundred families from China and abroad have registered for a competition to win a tour to Beijing and other cities co-hosting the 2008 Olympic Games.
The Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee launched the event called the "Olympic Families Tour Beijing" on Monday.
As part of the program, the one hundred families, each with three or more members, have registered on the official website at www.beijing2008.cn and will write blogs on their family lives.
These families, fifty from China and fifty from overseas, will have to complete a number of challenging tasks before the top ten are selected as winning families through an online vote.
Janusz Tatera is the Counselor at Poland's Embassy in China. His family became the first to register for the competition.
Tatera's daughter, Beata Tatera, says with a strong Olympic background, her family is very up to winning the game.
 "The Olympic movement has been in our family for several, several years. My father as 12-year old organized the first Olympics in his hometown in Poland in his neighborhood. And as a child, as a 12-year old, I was in Atlanta on the Olympic Games as a volunteer. I have also participated in Athens, as our whole family did in Olympics. And we can't wait for Beijing."
The final ten winning families will be rewarded a tour through Beijing, Qingdao, Shanghai and Hong Kong on August 8, the start of the one year countdown to the Beijing Olympic Games.
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