Coca-Cola "Live Positively Awards"-- Honorees
Sixteen recipients have been named for the 2008 Coca-Cola "Live
Positively Awards," which are being presented daily throughout
the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Ceremonies take place at the
Coca-Cola Shuang Experience Center, within Beijing’s Olympic
Green. Details about daily award presentations are updated below.
BEIJING, 9 August 2008 -- Dr. Reinhold Lopatka, Austria's
State Secretary of Sports and an advocate of integration through sports,
holds the Coca-Cola "Live Positively Award"
he received Saturday at the Coca-Cola Shuang Experience
Center in Beijing. Lopatka is the first of 16 honorees for the 2008
award, which is being presented daily during the Beijing 2008 Olympic
Games.
BEIJING, 10 August 2008 -- French sports legend and
IOC member Jean-Claude Killy (center) today received the 2008 Coca-Cola
"Live Positively Award" during ceremonies at the Coca-Cola
Shuang Experience Center in Beijing. Presenting the award were
Scott McCune (left), of The Coca-Cola Company, and Hubert Patricot
(right), new head of the European Group for Coca-Cola Enterprises.
Killy, who swept all three men's Alpine skiing events at the
Grenoble 1968 Olympic Winter Games, currently is chairman of the Coordination
Commission for the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games.
BEIJING, 11 August 2008 -- Ronald McDonald House Charities
China, whose broad humanitarian response to the May 2008 Sichuan earthquake
in China includes funds for rebuilding schools, was the recipient
Monday of the 2008 Coca-Cola "Live Positively Award." Jointly
accepting the award were Li Ning (left) and Jeffrey Schwartz (center),
the board co-chairs of Ronald McDonald House Charities China. Presiding
over the ceremony was Jerry Wilson (right), of The Coca-Cola Company.
Xin Jing, China
Svetlana Zhurova, Russia
BEIJING, 15 August 2008 -- Members of the Lopez family,
from Sugar Land, Texas (USA), Friday pose with their Coca-Cola "Live
Positively Award" received during ceremonies in Beijing (from
left): son Jean, parents Julio and Ondina, daughter Diana, and
sons Mark and Steven. The four Lopez siblings are known as "the
First Family of Taekwondo," with Jean serving as head coach of
the four-person American team that includes Steven, Mark and Diana
-- all competing in the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
BEIJING, 16 August 2008 -- Special Olympics, which in
2008 marks 40 years of empowering individuals with intellectual disabilities,
Saturday received the Coca-Cola "Live Positively Award"
during ceremonies in Beijing. Accepting the award on behalf
of the international sports organization was Olympic Games gymnastics
legend Nadia Comaneci (center), a vice chair on the board of directors
of Special Olympics. She was joined by husband Bart Conner (left),
the three-time Olympian and two-time gold medalist in men’s gymnastics,
and ceremony host Scott McCune, of The Coca-Cola Company.
Davis Phinney, United States
BEIJING, 18 August 2008 -- Olympic Games swim champion
Donna de Varona (left), representing The William E. Simon Endowment
for the Support of Athletes, and Yang Ming, China's award-winning
sports journalist, celebrate after receiving the 2008 Coca-Cola "Live
Positively Awards" Monday in Beijing.
BEIJING, 19 August 2008 -- He Zhen Liang (left), known
as China's "Mr. Olympics" for his pivotal role in helping
bring the 2008 Olympic Games to Beijing, receives the Coca-Cola "Live
Positively Award" Tuesday from David Brooks, general manager
of the 2008 Olympic Project Group for Coca-Cola China. An IOC
member since 1981, He also is an executive member of BOCOG and an
honorary president of the Chinese Olympic Committee.
Donnie Pei, China
Shawn Johnson, United States
Volunteers of the Olympic Games
BEIJING, 23 August 2008 -- Scott McCune (left), of The
Coca-Cola Company, and Feng Shuyong, vice president of
the Chinese Athletics Association and head coach of the Chinese track
team, display the Coca-Cola "Live Positively Award"
that was ceremoniously presented Saturday to China’s hurdling
star, Liu Xiang. Feng accepted the award from Coca-Cola
on behalf of Liu, who withdrew from competition during the Beijing
2008 Olympic Games due to an injury.
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