14 June 2005
Special Olympics Legend
If you've had an email account for any length of time you've probably gotten the story as junk forwarded by someone you know. At the Special Olympics a racer fell and the other runners turned back, one kissed the boo-boo, and arm-in-arm they all crossed the finish line together. It's a lovely little story and can be found kicking around on the web; it turns up on the Urban Legends website. There the claim is that it has a foundation in truth. If it's true, these Olympians have to have names. That's what I'm looking for. If I could find just the name of the one who fell I'd be satisfied. I have a request out to the Special Olympics organization, I'm checking on-line newspaper archives. I figure if I get a name I can work backwards and search for that on the web and it should take me to a complete account, right? Will let you know if I find anything.
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Still no word from Special Olympics. Nothing at the Sports Illustrated website and it's hard to find newspaper archives that go back to 1976 but I'm still looking.
I meant to leave this before now but I did get a response from Special Olympics. They confirm the story is substantially true and occurred at the Special Olympics in Spokane, WA in 1976 but have no detailed information.
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