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Spirit Magazine
Quarter 4 – 2005

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Features

 

 

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A Lock on Success: 2005 Global Athlete Congress
in Panama
(1.1M PDF)
Athletes from around the world meet to resolve issues that are important to them

 

 

34

The MedFest Phenomenon (584K PDF)
Athletes and health-care professionals are being brought together
in record numbers

 

 

38


 

Changing Lives Through Sport (375K PDF)
Special Olympics research documents benefits of participation in the movement for people with intellectual disabilities

 

 

40

Sport to the Rescue in Afghanistan (288K PDF)
Special Olympics fills a void for people with intellectual disabilities in Afghanistan

 

 

42

Revival in Banda Aceh (652K PDF)
After surviving years of war and a devastating tsunami, Special Olympics athletes relish their first Provincial Games

 

 

 

Departments

   

1

Perspective (88K PDF)

     

4

Starting Line (1.7M PDF)
News on Special Olympics sports, initiatives and more from around the world.

 

 

16

 

Athletes (390K PDF)
By, for and/or about athletes: profiles, personal anecdotes, facts and figures, etc.

 

 

 

19

 

Closeup (692K PDF)
Special Olympics photo essays

 

 

20

Extended Family (773K PDF)
Updates on Special Olympics families, donors, volunteers, heroes, etc.

 

 

 

44

 

Moment of Truth (192K PDF)
In "Appreciating the Gift," Tom Lambke writes of his son Bryan, who was born with Down Syndrome, and how Special Olympics has changed his entire family.

 

 

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