“The designs for the Beijing Olympic medals should highlight the themes of ‘glory and dream’ and ‘faster, higher and stronger’,” Zhang Ming, deputy director of BOCOG’s Culture and Ceremonies Department, said at the press conference. “The medals should be the material vehicles to disseminate the Olympic ideals and the concepts of the Beijing Games, to showcase China’s arts, designs and scientific and technological development. They should become the unique legacy of the Beijing Games.”

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