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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