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Olympics

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Olympics
Sports medicine An international competition among (traditionally) nonprofessional athletes trained in a particular summer or winter sport, which is held every 4 yrs in a selected city. See Paralympics, Special Olympics, World Medical Games.
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Q. Would people with bipolar disorder be considered eligible to compete in the olympics? I am a shuttle relay state champion. I won many cups in state and country level. My long-time-goal is to have my name at least on the Olympics list. But here is a new problem to spoil my goal. I am diagnosed as bipolar-I. Now my worry is would people with bipolar disorder be considered eligible to compete in the Olympics? Or will I be able to compete in the Special Olympics?

A. wow...good question...can mental health patient be a special Olympic athletes. i think you should check it out with simple phone call, here is how to locate a special Olympics Program near you:
http://info.specialolympics.org/Special+Olympics+Public+Website/English/Program_Locator/default.htm

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Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of the Special Olympics and lifelong advocate for those with intellectual disabilities, died Aug.
Special Olympics founder Eunice Shriver dies by The Non-profit Times
Probably after the Olympics I had to make a decision whether I did want to go on or not and I still feel like I have more to give in the sport and I have more to achieve.
Aussie Trickett to swim on to London 2012 by AFP / AFP Global Edition
Britain's first gold medal and early gymnastics success provided the ratings peaks of the first two days of the BBC's Olympics coverage on Saturday August 9 and Sunday August 10.
Olympics: Tasty ratings for Cooke's cycling triumph on BBC by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
 
 
 
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