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MENA athletes have their share
During the opening ceremony of the Special Olympics World Summer Games, a documentary movie picturing the flame of hope’s journey all over the world was displayed at the Olympic Stadium in Shanghai.
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Harb AlJassemy, MENA Global Messenger, holding the Flame |
The 80,000 spectators attending the inauguration of the Games were impressed by the documentary which featured the flame of hope’s journey beginning in Athens, Greece and through all its stop- over including the Egyptian city of Alexandria.
The ceremony of the flame of hope took place infront of the Alexandria Bibloteque and the Qait Bay citadel before ending at the pyramids plateau in Giza where Egypt’s First Lady Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak witnessed as two athletes; an Egyptian and a Chinese carry the torch. Almost 18 athletes representing the MENA region participated in carrying the flame of hope in Egypt.
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