hope this is the right place to post this - have been accepted as a volunteer at the special olympics in leicester in july - am doing nearely 60hrs over 7 days - so expect i will be exhausted - anyone in east mids who wants to suppport the event - pm me for details or if you know of anyone competing - pls let me know - would be lovely to have an excuse to go & say hello to competitors & their horses
special olympics
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I think my friend may be riding in this...i know she's training for something but i'm not really sure what it is. 
She rode in the special olympics in Glasgow a few years ago, and then in Shanghai (i think!) last year. I'm assuming she's riding in this one too.
She's representing Tayside. Don't want to put her name up as its the internet and i don't have her permission, but she should hopefully stand out as the one doing very well, as i am happy to blow her trumpet for her.
She got golds in Shanghai.
She rode in the special olympics in Glasgow a few years ago, and then in Shanghai (i think!) last year. I'm assuming she's riding in this one too. She's representing Tayside. Don't want to put her name up as its the internet and i don't have her permission, but she should hopefully stand out as the one doing very well, as i am happy to blow her trumpet for her.
She got golds in Shanghai.
I applied for it and got the application pack etc but I'd only be able to do the last couple of days so not sure it's worth going through the whole CRB stuff for and don't think I have time, I really hope it goes well though and a great time is had by all 
Hope it doesn't completely knacker you either!
Hope it doesn't completely knacker you either!
rubysmum,
was the SO and volunteering good?
Have wanted to enter as a competitor for a few years but they didn't offer local training sessions,or archery.
It's completely unfair for all the competitors and fans the amount of airtime that the paralympics,regular olympics and winter olympics get on tv,when compare it to the SO,which doesnt seem to get any on terrestrial [unless have always just missed it].
was the SO and volunteering good?
Have wanted to enter as a competitor for a few years but they didn't offer local training sessions,or archery.
It's completely unfair for all the competitors and fans the amount of airtime that the paralympics,regular olympics and winter olympics get on tv,when compare it to the SO,which doesnt seem to get any on terrestrial [unless have always just missed it].
My daughter was there competing in gymnastics (she got silver) can I say how wonderful all the volenteers were, it's a hard time for us mothers trusting our loved ones to others . Well done to all of you and thank you
it isn't very fair,would have thought volunteers would be swapped around and not kept to same place,as they have done this with volunteers in other olympics.mostly wet & spent a lot of time staffing car parks
i do agree that SO gets unfair lack of attention & unlike the Olympics & paralympics gets NO government funding - athlethes families have to fundraise to pay for their expenses
do they give a medal for completing volunteering? the lady am knew who did volunteering,did the commonwealth games in manchester-she was a steward and got a medal at the end,as well as a first choice offer on volunteering for the sydney [?] olympics and a stewarding/security job with the company used.
Government funding! so that is why the SOs is barely known apart from the name,should have realised it was funding related as they have already took away funding from learning disabled adults in care,day services,social services and education.
It's not fair at all for the LD/ID competitors,if they and their families cannot afford their expenses of the SO-they cannot enter the paralympics either because of the LD/ID ban [which should be classed as discriminative because
it was one team that pretended to have LD,not all of them],they may have needs too different to cope with mainstream sports-so what can they do apart from enter lower/smaller competition?
it all sounds like breaks of the disability discrimination act.?
1962mclean
,great stuff on the silver!
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I have volunteered at my local equestrian special olympics. You will probably be quite worn out but it depends on what jobs you are doing. I was helping competitors with the opening ceremony, grooming, tacking, and leading horses for our students. But it was so worth it. I had so much fun and it is one of those experiences I wouldn't give up for the world. You will have so much fun you won't care how exhausted you are.
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