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Meet Special Olympics Tunisia
9 October 2007
Special Olympics Tunisia has eight athletes competing in athletics at World Summer Games. Accompanying the team is Bahri Wissema, champion long jumper and high jumper. Coach Ali Baroud, has coached Special Olympics athletes since 1994 and speaks highly of the movement as a major humanitarian organization that affirms the lives of people with intellectual disabilities.
Special Olympics Tunisia has eight athletes competing in athletics at World Summer Games. Accompanying the team is Bahri Wissema, champion long jumper and high jumper. Coach Ali Baroud, has coached Special Olympics athletes since 1994 and speaks highly of the movement as a major humanitarian organization that affirms the lives of people with intellectual disabilities.

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