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Special Olympics: showcase ability, not disability

02/17/09

Posted under Special Olympics

Lawrence Casiraya
INQUIRER.net

MANILA, Philippines –More than 600 intellectually disabled athletes will gather in Lingayen, Pangasinan next month for the four-day national Special Olympics.

This year’s games serves as a prelude to the next World Special Olympics to be held in Athens, Greece.

Special Olympics Philippines (SOP), a non-profit organization that started in 1978, conducts these national games every two years.

In the most recent Special Olympics held in Shanghai, China in 2007 or a year before the Beijing Summer Olympics, a team of 40 athletes represented the country and won a total 52 medals, nine of them gold.

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