專四晨讀美文：Gordon Brown

Gordon Brown
Shui: What is your take
when London was applying for the 2012?
They emphasize the key words
like fun and creativity and things like that.
And also they want to leave a kind of legacy
that is for the youths around the world.
What people can expect by the time of 2012, that we can see.
What kind of fun? What kind of creativity?
What kind of legacy by the time when they begin the games?
Brown: I think we want to think about ourselves
as one the creativest centres of the world.
And those countries
that are creative and have a talent and genuity
are inventive and innovative,
are going to be successful countries in the future.
I know China is a very innovative country, so to is Britain.
But I think the emphasis on legacy is about how...
you don't just have Olympic for a few days
and that something lives on after that.
I think these two things we want to achieve:
one is the regeneration of a part of London
that is said we will need regeneration.
So a lot of our expenditure will be on
building a new for the next generation—
houses as well as some sports and some other facilities.
And then we want the legacy for the rest of the world.
We want to help the young people at every part of the world
benefit from not just sport but from education.
And one of the projects we involved in
is encouraging young people who don't go to school
to go to school in some countries in the world
whether it's not universally educationed.
China has achieved it, but there are many countries
where a lot of children don't go to school.
And we want to work with these countries
using sport as a medium via which we do it
so that we can encourage more young people
to get the benefit of not just sport but the education
in the years to come.
So our legacy for the world is that sport becomes the means
by which more young people
are above opportunities than ever before.