What a great day for Guatemala and our athletes! The morning blazing heat gave way to cooler late morning gray skies. We finished and left before the torrential downpour.
With 13 students we all had a great time and renewed friendships and rivalries. Not clear exactly which competitors will represent us in the International Special Olympics in Greece in February.
Please continue to support the Special Olympics wherever you are. It is truly an amazing organization. I hear that Rahm will continue to increase his pledge as well.
My small contribution to coaching was to suggest that we get a quick start. Karrina took my words to heart and had false starts in two races. Fortunately they are not penalized for that, so she was fine. She went on to win one of those races. Unfortunately, a couple of our boys did not hear the instructions to start fast. They were still looking around when the other kids were already 5 yards down the lane.
Centro Residencial Psiquiatrico y Neurologico Gana Todo en los Olimpicos Especiales de Guatemala.
Mas Oro, Plata y Bronze que otro equipo. Unos van a Grecia por los Olimpicos Internacional.
I don't really think that we won more medals than all the other teams. In fact, we have not been working out much and may have slipped a bit from the mid-year competition. The point of the Special Olympics is that each kid feels like a winner. And our kids definitely had a great time and cam away feeling good about themselves and their ability to compete.
BTW- I was chatting with this older guy who competed. He lives in a State run mental asylum. He had all kinds of scars on his head from recent surgeries. He was pretty scary to look at, but very nice and quite normal to chat with. It reminded me that we should not judge a book by it's cover. I really felt that he could have been me or one of you. Maybe a tumor or some type of brain trauma had impaired him to where he needed to be hospitalized the last year and a half.
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