Short clip: Special Olympics capturing the spirit via the web

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>> And how have you utilized the Internet and Web sites as a way for the athletes as well as administrators to access all that information?

>> Well, you know, we have the results being posted on the Internet on a constant basis so that the athletes and their families can go in and look at how they performed in this particular competition. We also have an effort that was started in Shanghai and which I think is a fabulous concept where we have attempted to capture every single athlete that participated in our events and then create snippets that can be downloaded, that can be, you know, searched on; so that, regardless of where the competition is taking place, the parents and the neighbors and the friends of our athletes throughout the world can go into an Internet cafe, for example, and go into a particular Web site called live.specialolympics.org and search for their athlete and actually see footage on a fairly quick basis of their athlete friend or family, you know, participating in that competition. That brings an amount of joy and participation that heretofore was really not possible

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