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Yiorgos Sapounidis better known as George Sapounidis is a Greek Canadian musician, troubadour, statistician and a Sinophile living in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He was the subject of 2005 Canadian documentary film entitled Chairman George. The documentary, directed by Daniel Cross and Mila Aung-Thwin and produced by EyeSteelFilm in association with CTV, BBC's "Storyville" series and TV2, tells the story of Sapounidis as a popular musician in China campaigning for approval to perform at the closing ceremonies of 2004 Athens Olympics, when the flag was to be given to Beijing for organizing the Source: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
