The Special Olympics Are Awesome

Rumble Strip

Erica Heilman / Rumble Strip

Places & Travel, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 25 October 2016

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Excerpts from my day at the Fall Special Olympics.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Rumble Strip Vermont, this is Erica Heilman.
0:03.0	Welcome to the 2016 ball games.
0:07.0	Who's ready to play some soccer or golf?
0:10.0	A couple weeks ago my son and I volunteered at the Soccer Special Olympics in
0:17.7	Northfield Vermont at Norwich University. The athletes came from all over the state and the teams were made up of people of all
0:24.7	ages and both sexes. So 55 year old women with 13 year old boys with 17 year old girls and
0:31.9	you have never seen so much team spirit or felt such intense
0:36.4	excitement about just all of it. Everything, the games, the cheering, the lunch. It was like the feeling of Christmas and birthdays and that slow motion part of
0:47.4	chariots of fire all at once
0:50.0	and all day long
0:52.0	from Addison and all day long. I was supposed to be volunteering, but in the end really all I did was walk around and talk with people.
1:00.0	This is a sample of the Special Olympics 2016 Fall Games. Welcome.
1:06.0	I like to welcome to the stage Sean Fehi, who will be leading us in the athlete
1:10.5	Oakland.
1:11.5	Yeah, Sean! Oh, Shaw! Who!
1:14.0	Who!
1:15.0	Oh! Oh!
1:16.0	How How do
1:18.0	How's it going?
1:21.0	How's it going? It going.
1:24.0	Let me win.
1:29.0	Let me win.
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