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VOI Winner (9/18/00)
FULL STORY:
"Racing With the Dolphins" by Sun-ik Kim from Korea was named as the Grand
Prizewinner of the VISA Olympics of the
Imagination youth art competition. The program attracted 400,000 entries from a total
of 23 countries. Visa Olympics of the Imagination challenged school children,
ages 9-13, to use their imaginations to create an original piece of art that
represented what the Olympic motto of "Citius, Altius, Fortius" (Faster,
Higher, Stronger) meant to them. Sun-ik and one of his parents will attend the
Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympic Games, Utah, USA, as
guests of Visa.
Sun-ik was selected by renowned Australian artist Ken Done, VOI's special
Ambassador and Artist-in-Residence during the Olympic Games. "I had seen VOI
before and I was really struck by the high quality and joy of it," said Ken.
"This piece of artwork reminds people of the absolute ideals of the Games."
VOI winners were selected from Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Bonaire, Brazil,
Canada, Cayman Islands, China, Czech Republic, Curacao, Finland, Germany,
Hungary, India, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Russia, South
Africa, United States and Uruguay.
For more information visit
www.visa.com/visakids.
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