Special Olympics ends in Shanghai

时间：2007-10-12 03:20:41

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The 10-day 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games ended in Shanghai Oct. 11, 2007.
 
SHANGHAI, Oct. 12 - The 10-day 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games ended here on Thursday after leaving behind a string of superlatives - grandest opening, most delegations1, widest media coverage3 and greatest impact.

 

The games, which feature in 21 medal sports and four demonstrating events, attracted 7,450 athletes from 164 countries and regions, a record in the 39-year history of the games.

 

Some 20,000 delegation2 officials, coaches, celebrities4 and family members of the Special Olympics athletes also came to Shanghai while more than 40,000 volunteers, most of them students from China and overseas as well, served the games and the intellectual disabled athletes with passion and love.

 

To ensure that the Special Olympics athletes were well looked after - and more importantly accepted, China poured in nearly 60 million yuan (about 8 million U.S. dollars) as a financial backup to ensure the event going smoothly5.

 

The merits were even more than the expectation of the organizers: the opening ceremony was a great success; the games went smoothly with no complaints, the attitude towards mentally disabled people changed in China and the awareness6 of Special Olympics greatly promoted.

 

"Shanghai residents have become more concerned with the intellectual disabled people because of the Special Olympics, and the city has become more warm-hearted," taxi driver Zhang Weiyu said.

 

A survey has shown 92 percent of Shanghai residents are aware of the Games.

 

The Special Olympics may have been a watershed7 moment for China's mentally disabled, but perhaps a breakthrough came a few years earlier.

 

In the past five years, the Special Olympics movement enjoyed a rapid progress in China as the Chinese Special Olympics athletes boomed from 50, 000 to more than 620,000, and the figure will further grow to one million by the year 2010.

 

While Wang Zhijun, chairman of Special Olympics China, described it as "an arduous8 and progressive process" to build the Special Olympics movement in China, officials from the Special Olympics International (SOI) spilt their praise to Shanghai and China.

 

Dicken Yung, president of SOI east Asian region, praised China's efforts of hosting the 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games, saying " Shanghai has set an example for world Special Olympics movement".

 

SOI Chairman Timothy Shriver lauded9 the games in Shanghai as "exceptional" while Californian governor and former Hollywood super star Arnold Schwarzenegger predicted that Special Olympics movement would witness even faster development in China after the Shanghai games.

 

In conjunction with the games, a series of activities were held, including the "Global Summit for Health and Welfare of People with Intellectual Disabilities", "Global Youth Summit" attended by both intellectually disabled youths and regular youths and "Healthy Athletes" which gave athletes free health screening and medical checkup.

 

The Special Olympics World Summer Games are held every four years. The next edition will be hosted by Athens, Greece in 2011.

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1 delegations 13b3ac30d07119fea7fff02c12a37362     
n.代表团( delegation的名词复数 )；委托，委派
参考例句：
  • In the past 15 years, China has sent 280 women delegations abroad. 十五年来，中国共派280批妇女代表团出访。 来自汉英非文学 - 白皮书
  • The Sun Ray decision follows the federal pattern of tolerating broad delegations but insisting on safeguards. “阳光”案的判决仿效联邦容许广泛授权的做法，但又坚持保护措施。 来自英汉非文学 - 行政法
2 delegation NxvxQ     
n.代表团；派遣
参考例句：
  • The statement of our delegation was singularly appropriate to the occasion.我们代表团的声明非常适合时宜。
  • We shall inform you of the date of the delegation's arrival.我们将把代表团到达的日期通知你。
3 coverage nvwz7v     
n.报导，保险范围，保险额，范围，覆盖
参考例句：
  • There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
  • This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。
4 celebrities d38f03cca59ea1056c17b4467ee0b769     
n.（尤指娱乐界的）名人( celebrity的名词复数 )；名流；名声；名誉
参考例句：
  • He only invited A-list celebrities to his parties. 他只邀请头等名流参加他的聚会。
  • a TV chat show full of B-list celebrities 由众多二流人物参加的电视访谈节目
5 smoothly iiUzLG     
adv.平滑地，顺利地，流利地，流畅地
参考例句：
  • The workmen are very cooperative,so the work goes on smoothly.工人们十分合作，所以工作进展顺利。
  • Just change one or two words and the sentence will read smoothly.这句话只要动一两个字就顺了。
6 awareness 4yWzdW     
n.意识，觉悟，懂事，明智
参考例句：
  • There is a general awareness that smoking is harmful.人们普遍认识到吸烟有害健康。
  • Environmental awareness has increased over the years.这些年来人们的环境意识增强了。
7 watershed jgQwo     
n.转折点，分水岭，分界线
参考例句：
  • Our marriage was at a watershed.我们的婚姻到了一个转折关头。
  • It forms the watershed between the two rivers.它成了两条河流的分水岭。
8 arduous 5vxzd     
adj.艰苦的，费力的，陡峭的
参考例句：
  • We must have patience in doing arduous work.我们做艰苦的工作要有耐性。
  • The task was more arduous than he had calculated.这项任务比他所估计的要艰巨得多。
9 lauded b67508c0ca90664fe666700495cd0226     
v.称赞，赞美( laud的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句：
  • They lauded the former president as a hero. 他们颂扬前总统为英雄。 来自辞典例句
  • The nervy feats of the mountaineers were lauded. 登山者有勇气的壮举受到赞美。 来自辞典例句

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