This cute skater, Katrina, won first place for the US. Scott Hamilton put her gold medal on. What a great day to see these amazing athletes with such determination and yet amazing dignity and courage. They were so fun loving and the pure joy that they had at competiting and being among their peers. I've learned through the Special Olympic experience how "abled" these athletes are and how "disabled" we are. They are abled in patience and we are disabled in patience. They are abled in being courageous and we are disabled ,often, at being courageous. They are abled in pure joy we are often "disabled" in finding the joy in everyday. This has truly been a mind changed experience. What amazing athletes they are and truly hearts of gold!
Marissa loved to perform and skated to the song "Dancing Queen", and was she ever that!
Here is a picture of Richard, Tim Shriver (Arnold Schwartinager's bro in law) Stephen, Madeline, and Jacob.
Here are the kids with Michelle Kwan, an olympic skater. She and Scott Hamilton were presenting the medals and they were waiting on the ice below us so I said "kids, let's go get some pictures with two olympic athletes!" 
Madeline and Jacob with Scott Hamilton.
4 comments:
How fun! Was Scott and Michelle friendly and nice??
wow, that's awesome. What fun memories.
What a neat experience! Michelle Kwan and Scott Hamilton; wow!
How fun is that? They are so lucky to have met such wonderful people and seen that at such at young age. Thanks for that post. I loved it!
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