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Olympic and Special Olympic Connection

Current Olympians and former Olympians often come together to show their support for the Special Olympics. They Olympians often regcognize the hard work and dedication that the Special Olympians put in to compete at the level they do. They come together by volunteering in community service, participating in events together, and community outreach. One way that they have come together recently is by participating together in the Special Olmpyic Relay Across America. In 2015, over 20 Olympic medalists came together to run with Special Olympic athletes in the delivery of the Flame of Hope.

There is also a growing effort in having more Unified Teams at the Special Olympics and Paralympics to promote the unity between the sports. Many collegiate and retired or current professional athletes come together to participate in the sports that the athletes love.

Connection to Olympic Games (S.O. Talk Page)

There is no discussed link to how the Olympics, Paralympics, and Special Olympics interact with each other. Athletes from all sides join forces for speaking, fundraising, and in their sport to support each other and the sport they love. It will help bridge the gap between the Olympics, Paralympics, and Special Olympics by adding a section on how they connect and cooperate with each other.

• Bibliography for further investigation on the connection between the Special Olympics, Paralympics and Olympics

Article Evaluation

• Special Olympics
  • There is a lot of great information regarding the Special Olympics. There is a subsection about Healthy Athletes but it is just a brief overview. As a graduate student in the therapeutic field, I would like to see a little more information on this topic. The article briefly talks about how what the subgroups of Healthy Athletes does but I think it would be good to elaborate a little more on what they do. The FUNfitness Program has some information but there is a lot that goes into this and it is only one subgroup.
  • Everything on the page is relevant to the topic and, as mentioned above, I believe there are some topics that are underrepresented and could add a lot to the page or even a whole other page. It is cited well and has links in all the correct areas. It also takes out a lot of bias with the criticism and factual history section.
  • The Talk section of this article has conversation going with some concern that some information should not be included and that some topics were not as objective.

It looks like you have a good start. I like the idea of incorporating the connection between various olympic groups. The article would benefit from a section on who exactly can participate. It may also benefit from the addition of more information about volunteer opportunities, specifically how PTs can get involved (for the sake of our class). So far the article has a solid foundation with no noticeable grammatical errors. In this sandbox, I'm sure you will, but just make sure you do a proofreading before actually adding it to the article. Other than that I noticed that some of the references are quite old (>20 years). Formatting is also very odd and varying for many of the references. Kolby Arnold (talk) 16:32, 11 October 2017 (UTC)Kolby Arnold

Suggestions

I think this article is loaded with a lot of good information. Under the criticism section, I think it would be a good idea to add in a couple examples of athletes being scrutinized, such as the bilateral amputee who won gold in the 200m years ago from south Africa and what not. 198.51.21.10 (talk) 13:38, 13 October 2017 (UTC)