Some athletes who have reached the pinnacle of their sports in the Beijing Games have rich lives awaiting at home, budding careers, university studies, families and children.
It is the kind of news the city's Transportation Department would love to report someday: a New York City bike-share program that attracts all types of cyclists, from budding entrepreneurs to university professors, and does not lead to stolen bikes or injured riders.
The aim is a qualification that suits both those bound for university and budding craftsmen and technicians.
He explains that while there is widespread support at universities for budding and student entrepreneurs who already have ambitions to run a business after graduating, more could be done to flag it as an option for undecided students.
These days, many universities support budding academic entrepreneurs through ad-hoc courses and access to technology transfer offices, business incubators, and innovation parks.
Some of the smartest minds are budding in the region's universities, many of them international, with top-notch faculty members from the West and elsewhere.
What advice would you give to a budding management consultant fresh out of university?
Wandering around the "city of perspiring dreams", voices redolent of the British Raj floating on the breeze, who could imagine a more pleasant university city for a budding one-night romance?
Andrew, 19, was a budding geophysicist, winner of a four-year university scholarship from Anglo-American, the gold-mining empire.
Mia Fredrickson is a prize-winning poet in her 50s, a university lecturer, and mother to a budding actress.
