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#TEAMSOGB Daily Update
Special Olympics GB’s 21 athletes at the
World Winter Games in Austria 2017
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Special Olympics GB is proud to update you every day of the #TEAMSOGB’s 21 athletes - eleven Alpine Skiers and ten Figure Skaters – who are representing their country at the 2017 World Winter Games. Athletes from Wales, Scotland, South East, North West, Midlands, Yorkshire & Humberside and East of England regions are representing Special Olympics GB at World Winter Games #Austria2017. The showpiece Special Olympics World Winter Games is held every four years and the largest disability sports event of 2017 anywhere in the World. A spectacular opening ceremony will be held in Schladming on Saturday 18th March 2017.
If you want to follow the Great Britain team and see how well the athletes are performing in competition please follow us on Facebook and Twitter for up to the hour updates!
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23rd March - Today's Event!
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Alpine Skiing
8.30am - 12.00pm
Finals Slalom
3.00pm- 7.30pm
Awards Ceremony Slalom
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Figure Skating
10.00am-11.00am
Awards Ceremony Level 2
4.00pm-8.00pm
Free Program Singles (Level 3 &4)
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To view the team and see the full competition schedule, please click here!
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22nd March Competition Update
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Alpine Skiing
The morning started with thick fog which brought new challenges for the skiers doing their divisioning runs for tomorrow's slalom race. Visibility was down to 30 meters but that didn't stop the athletes doing their best and they have all competed divisioning successfully and we are now waiting to hear which categories they will race in tomorrow.
The afternoon was spent in Schladming shopping for gifts for famliy members and buying momentos to remind the athletes of their time out here.
Read the full story here!
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Figure Skating
Heather McNeil today recieved her Gold medal for her performance (Level 1 Ladies, ages 16-19yrs). Everyone was so proud of her and she really has become a star.
Jonathan McSalley (Level 1 Men, ages 24-45yrs) recieved his 6th place ribbon and enjoyed every moment of receiving his award on stage with proud parents, coaches, friends and team mates looking on and congratulating him.
Read the full teams update here!
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Alpine Skiers
Lauren Payne - Gold Giant Slalom
Tyler Charleston - Gold Giant Slalom
Alex Scarborough - Silver - Super G
Karen Oosthuizen - Silver - Giant Slalom
Anthony Coulon - Bronze - Giant Slalom
James Millard - 4th in Super G and 4th
in Giant Slalom
Owen Stephen - 4th in Super G
David Corr - joint 4th in Giant Slalom
Ruth Charleston - 5th Giant Slalom
Becky Owen - 5th Giant Slalom
Lauren Cain- Participation ribbon
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Figure Skaters
Heather McNeil – Gold
Courtney Montgomery – Gold
Jenny Lee – 4th
Meg McFarlane – 5th
Graeme Watson – 5th
Jonathan McSalley – 6th
Calum Mills – 8th
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The amazing Torvill & Dean were with our brilliant #TEAMSOGB figure skaters in Graz! #Austria2017
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A HUGE thank you to Special Olympics GB ambassadors Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean who spent the day in Graz supporting the #TEAMSOGB figure skaters & all athletes at #Austria2017.
Many of our figure skaters were inspired to take up the sport due to Torvill & Dean.
View highlights of Torvill and Dean with our Ice skaters here!
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A BIG thank you to our coaches and volunteers who have supported #TEAMSOGB this week at #Austria 2017!
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Alex Williams - Head of Delegation – Carmarthenshire – Wales - Llandeilo
Adrienne Purdie - Assistant Head of Delegation – Grampian – Scotland - Aberdeen
Emily Onley - Special Olympics GB
Liam de Vanney - Head Coach Alpine Skiing - South East Ski Group - South East - Bromley
Pete Jesse - Coach Alpine Skiing – Surrey - South East - Farnham
Josh Murphy - Coach Alpine Skiing - Event Team - East Midlands - Willerby
Louise Chatwin - Head Coach Figure Skating - Nottinghamshire - East Midlands - Selston
Paul Crocker - Coach Figure Skating - South East Hampshire – Southern - Gosport
Pam Richardson-Delaney - Coach Figure Skating - Merseyside - North West - Altrincham
Ann Stokes - Coach - Figure Skating - Scotland West - Scotland - Coatbridge
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Athlete Leader Ian Harper -
Unified Talks presented by Bank of America
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I have returned from Schaldming in Austria in which I had a the best two days of my life
First I went to the Founders Ball the night before I did a speech in which it was a great show hearing from the Global Messagers & Tim Shriver the Special Olympics Chairman.
I then went to do a speech early the next morning as part of a group panel which included Kelly Fredickson the Vice-President of Bank America which was Co-Hosted by Chris Hull & Global Messager Brightfield Bryt Shadi from Botswana who was brilliant & I was in awe of him & proud to be one of his new friends.
Later I met the 21 SOGB athletes & chatted with them, they all were enjoying the games & were proud to be part of the World Stage while they were all being interviewed by ITV & they met Torvill & Dean so it was an honour to meet them & I wish them luck for the rest of the World Winter Games.
Read Ian's full report here!
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Special Olympics GB and Youth Sport Trust
at the Global Youth Impact Summit
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Over the past 5 days:
- We have developed our leadership brand- having attended workshops on leadership and behavior styles.
- We have reflected about what we need to do as leaders back in our communities to raise awareness of people with intellectual disabilities
- We have developed a project called Unified Play, which will support schools involved in Play Unified across the UK- in partnership with SOGB athletes to further raise awareness of Play Unified
- We attended the opening ceremony with our new friends- 25 countries and 44 young people with and without intellectual disabilities
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- We had a cultural evening, sharing a Scottish Caley dance and swapping cultural gifts with Special Olympics New York City!
- We learned about how to evaluate our projects- and develop ways of finding out the impact our work can have for young people with intellectual disabilities
- We delivered a workshop on Influencing Community Leaders- and received lots of positive feedback on all our work we are doing for Play Unified in the UK.
- We have been involved in Unified Talks- discussing how to promote inclusion in our communities- this was with You Tube stars, NFL stars and NBA!
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If you would like to view the previous WWG TeamSOGB update newsletters, please click below:
Team Daily Competition Updates
- 17th / 18th / 19th / 20th / 21st March & 22nd March - Click Here!
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A big day of competition for so many of our #TEAMSOGB athletes. We had 9 skiers competing in the Giant Slalom and two level 1 figure skaters in competition.
The figure skaters got to spend the day with British Skating Legends Torvill and Dean.
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The moment gets closer to the Special Olympics World Winter Games Opening Ceremony. For our 21 #TEAMSOGB athletes, coaches, volunteers and family, excitement abounds.
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The moment gets closer to the Special Olympics World Winter Games Opening Ceremony. For our 21 #TEAMSOGB athletes, coaches, volunteers and family, excitement abounds.
Click to read more!
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Only one figure skater was in competition today, so after they had cheered on Eloise, the athletes got to spend some time with family.
The skiing was all about divisioning, preparing for a full race day tomorrow.
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This today is the first team photo of our skiers with their #TEAMSOGB race bibs on and the race course in the back ground. For our figure skaters, training this morning and the last 24 hours have been exciting as they travelled to Graz.
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Practice plus a mountain trip for #TEAMSOGB as they prepare for the Opening Ceremony and the Special Olympics World Winter Games.
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All of the figure skaters competeted in the first satge of the compulsorary elements which are worth 33% of their final mark.
We had our first competition results in the Alpine skiing, finishing the day with a 2nd and two fourths.
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#TEAMSOGB departed from Heathrow Terminal 2 late morning helped by volunteers from ESPN and Bank of America. After two flights, the 21 Special Olympics GB athletes arrived with their coaches in Graz.
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Special Olympics GB’s 21 athletes together with their 10 #TEAMSOGB coaches enjoyed a special send-off tea-party at the Coca-Cola’s offices on Wimpole Street in Central London to wish them good luck.
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