首批入选的2008年北京奥运会候选歌曲中，年轻音乐家丛欣竹的《人类竞赛》入围，成为七名候选者之一。该曲是丛欣竹深入研究了历届奥运歌曲资料后的精心之作，融入很多中国元素，尽显中华民族特性，并请来喜多郎担当编曲，对于自己这首用心之作，丛欣竹信心十足。
2003年12月初，首批奥运推荐的歌曲揭晓，丛欣竹的《人类竞赛》名列其中。
In early December 2003 the first group of recommended Olympic songs were revealed and Cong Xinzhu's the Human Race was among them.
竞赛的目标是人类基因组的序列，包括共30亿个基因字母，正如标题中作者写的——阅读生命。
The race was to sequence the human genome, all 3 billion genetic letters of it, and thus-as headline writers put it-read the book of life.
在认知能力的竞赛中，人类更是慢得像伊索寓言里的乌龟：经历缓慢而沉稳的爬行才到达终点。
Yet, in the cognitive race, human babies turn out to be much like the tortoise in Aesop’s fable: emerging triumphant after a slow and steady climb to the finish.
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