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Ten families from China and abroad will travel to Beijing and other the cities co-hosting the Games under the "Olympic Families Tour Beijing" competition the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee launched on Monday.
To participate in the program, families must have three or more members. They have to register on the official website at www.beijing2008.cn and write a blog on their family life.
One hundred families ¨C fifty from China and fifty from overseas ¨C will be selected for the competition. They will have to complete a number of challenging tasks before the ten winning families are selected through an online vote.
Family of the Tateras became the the first to register for the competition. [Photo: CRIENGLISH.com]
Mr. Janusz Tatera is the Counselor at Poland's Embassy in China. At the press conference to launch the competition on Monday in Beijing, his family became the first to register for the competition.
His daughter, Beata Tatera, says she is very excited.
 "We feel honored basically! 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 winners will start their tour through Beijing, Qingdao, Shanghai and Hong Kong on August 8, 2007, the start of the one year countdown to the Beijing Olympic Games.
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