2009 Special Olympics Winter Games/Boise, ID
 

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If you want to watch any of the opening ceremony or Kenny G, the 2009 Special Olympics Opening Ceremony is taking place in the Idaho Center, just outside of Boise (Nampa, ID) right now.

This week will be the Special Olympics in and around the Boise area. It has been a truly inspirational week watching all these special athletes arrive and be so warmly greeted by all the host families in the area.

It is going to be a great week!

How cool! Thanks for sharing the info FG! Are they televising it nationally? I'd like to watch some of it.

I used to help out at the Special Olympics and loved it. It was so rewarding. I was always a Hugger, mainly to little ones. It is so rewarding to see these kids cross the finish line and fall in to the arms of their Hugger. Happy memories for me. Thanks for bringing the memories back to me. :hug:

Yes, I believe ESPN is televising it. There are here in full force! There are ESPN vans all over the place!

If not, you can check the link I provided. These are WORLD games, not just local or regional Special Olympics.

Evidently it's only being televised locally. There was a piece on our local news last night about the lack of national coverage. Even the international news stations commented about the lack of national coverage. Some of them commented that they had travel thousands of miles to cover the event and no one from the US was covering this event!!! It was just not right! It was pretty obvious that a lot of them were pretty disgusted with our news media. They would rather cover doom and gloom than the WORLD Winter Special Olympics. No wonder there were problems raising money to cover even the basic costs!