Egypt's Special Pharaohs eyeing glory in Athens
Egypt is participating in this year Athens Games, the fifth Summer Games for Egypt since its inception in 1994, with a 77-member delegation, including 54 athletes, 21 coaches and the chairman and deputy chairman of the delegation.
Egypt's Special Olympics was established in 1995, and the most Egyptian Council for the Special Olympics was elected this year, chaired by Gamal Madi Abul Azaem.
Chairman of the Egyptian delegation Abdel-Wahab Mahmoud has long been involved with Special Olympics.
He presided over Egypt’s delegation to the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Connecticut in the US in 1995 and then in North Carolina in the US in 1997.
He has also been Secretary of the Regional Advisory Board of the Special Olympics since its inception.
Dr Bassem Mohamed Tohamy, the deputy chairman of the Egyptian delegation, has participated in all the regional and international special games since 2002.
Egyptian athletes are competing in 11 different sports in Athens. They are swimming team, athletes, the badminton team, the basketball team for girls, the bocce team, the bowling team, the equestrian team, the sevens football team, the weightlifting team, the table tennis team and the tennis team
Ayman Abdel-Wahab is the Special Olympics Middle East and North Africa (MENA) managing director. The Middle East and North Africa region is participating in this year's Games with 924 players in 15 different sports, although Yemen is absent this year, because of the current unrest there.
This Special Olympics is the most significant athletic event hosted in Greece since the 2004 Olympic Games.
Egypt and the Special Olympics Games:
• Participated with 26 athletes in the 1995 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Connecticut in the US.
• Participated with 36 athletes in the 1999 Special Olympics World Summer Games in North Carolina in the US.
• Participated with 72 athletes in the 2003 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Dublin, Ireland.
• Participated at 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Shanghai, China.
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This Special Olympics is the most significant athletic event hosted in Greece since the 2004 Olympic Games. • Participated with 26 athletes in the 1995 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Connecticut in the US. • Participated with 36 athletes in the
Swim Club athlete had to choose between attending her second convocation ceremony at Algonquin College to receive another diploma or participate in her first Special Olympics World Summer Games in Athens, the site of the 2004 Summer Olympic Games.
Medallists such as Sze Hou from China's Hong Kong or Sam Donaldson from New Zealand who competed at a venue which has been utilized for the staging of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games, proved to the excited audience that "they are equal to Olympians," as
Hoy won his first with victory in the kilo at the Athens Olympic Games in 2004, before his Beijing haul in the team sprint, keirin and the sprint. Redgrave by comparison won his gold medals over each Olympics from Los Angeles in 1984 and the Sydney
Cheshire Academy co director Iain Chalmers added: “The World Special Olympic Games being held in Athens is the largest sporting event anywhere on the planet this year with over 7500 athletes from 185 different countries competing.
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JYP Entertainment announced Tuesday that its girl group Wonder Girls will perform during the closing ceremony of the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Athens on July 4.
The girls have picked their signature numbers "Tell Me"and "Nobody", as well as the folk song "Arirang" to sing for the closing event of the Games.
The ceremony will take place at the iconic Kallimarmaro Panathinaiko Stadium, downtown Athens, the site of the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 and the archery competition when the games returned to the city in 2004.
The group is flying to the Greek capital as part of a South Korean delegation for the 2013 Special Olympics which will be held in PyeongChang, Gangwon Province.
Oh ya, Gold medal is World Commonwealth Champ 2006 and silver was for 2004 Athens Olympic games (badmington for both)!! Awesome!!
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