The Conference was again organized in the Crowne Plaza Park View Wuzhou Hotel, near the Birds Nest.
The organizers did their best to make it a cool and interesting event but I feel the hoopla around the 2008 Olympics is cooling down. The theme “Enhancing the excitement around the Games” was maybe a bit sarcastic – not so many people turned up. Pity, S2M had transformed the usually drab meeting room into a mini-stadium, even with a mini running track, probably at great cost.

I attended because my good friends Sandy Hollway and David Churches (Sydney 2000) were speakers. Pity again that the people who should note down every recommendation Sandy gave were not there.
As for the overview of the Torch Relay (Ms. Di Henry of Maxxam International), I feel it is a bit too gigantic and too crazy schedule. Good luck to complete that program without too many glitches.