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About a week ago I announced an Olympic Ticket Giveaway. The time has come to announce the winners and runners-up. Although there is no way for me to verify you've done your good deed, I hope that you will follow through even if you didn't win the tickets.

There was a great response, with even better ideas:

• Pray for peace on Earth
• Organize a Couch Surfing gathering
• Give art lessons to friends and family
• Give up metro seats
• Make people smile
• Give English lessons to Japanese speakers
• Organize a fundraiser for the Join Together Society
• Sponsor a Sichuan child
• Help economically depressed municipalities start businesses
• Give technical help
• Spread happiness
• Volunteer at Chinese orphanages
• Be extra nice to the boyfriend
• Organize kids sporting events
• Donate to the Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Lower carbon footprint by using mass transit more
• Do the right thing

I'd like to give a special thank you to everyone who helped spread the word about this giveaway, especially the following:

• Kirsty from NerdyNomad
• Jason from GOOD Magazine
• Christine from Almost Fearless
• Julie from Matador Pulse

And without further adieu...

Winners:

• Joseph (good deed)
• Imran (good deed)
• Saurabh (good deed)

Runners-up

• A. Yellis (good deed)
• Anonymous (good deed)
• TKC (good deed)

Winners have 24 hours to contact me to claim their tickets, unclaimed tickets will be awarded to runners-up.

UPDATE: This giveaway has ended, see the results.

I have a surplus of tickets to the Olympics; rather than scalp them for crazy prices I've decided to give them away free of charge. There are three pairs of tickets available (six tickets total).

The tickets are for Equestrian Events in Hong Kong (A Class) to take place on August 9, 2008. The events will be held at the Sha Tin Racecourse (accessible via KCR).

You don't have to pay me back, but there is a slight catch. I expect you to "pay it forward" by doing a good deed, any good deed.

The tickets are available to anyone, really, anyone... that means you! All you have to do is leave a comment on this post describing the good deed you will do. Be creative, have fun and make sure the good deed is not directed toward me (that would defeat the idea of this pseudo-contest).

I will select three winners and three runners-up on August 6, 2008 and notify them via email. In the event that any of the winners is unable to attend or is unreachable by August 7, 2008 the tickets will be passed down to the runners-up.

Also, please be sure to give a valid email address (it won't be published) so I can contact you if you win.

If you're short on ideas for good deeds here are a few suggestions:

• Make a micro-loan on Kiva
• Host a foreign traveler from CouchSurfing
• Help an old lady cross the street
• Give some free hugs
• Subscribe to Good Magazine, or better yet buy a friend a subscription
• Practice other random acts of kindness

Rules:

• Each entrant can win at most one pair of tickets
• Winners have 24 hours to claim tickets
• Runners-up have 24 additional hours to claim tickets
• All decisions are final