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2025 SOBC Games: Stories

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The 2025 Special Olympics BC Summer Games showcased inspiring athletes with intellectual disabilities and dedicated volunteers and supporters from Prince George and all across the province!

Coverage During SOBC Games

Please click here to check out the amazing work by SOBC Games photography, video, and storytelling volunteers!

Please connect with Special Olympics BC's social media accounts to be part of the memorable moments and watch select events on Facebook Live, including the Opening Ceremony!

"I am loving my time in Prince George. The views, the food, the coaches and the home runs. Softball is the best! It's in my heart and so happy I get to play. I love to pitch and have fun with my teammates and friends.”
Athlete Reid Demelo at the 2025 SOBC Games

 

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“It’s been awesome – I’ve got all personal bests today and I beat my times from qualifiers. I’m having a blast. It’s been so much fun to come back, seeing all my old friends from SOBC Summer Games and old coaches, and seeing new faces has just been an incredible adventure so far. Keep your head up, keep going, work on your personal best, and just have a blast and keep going!”
Athlete Shayne Blandin at the 2025 SOBC Games

SOBC Stories

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“I’m here for swimming with the Abbotsford team and I’m here to get gold. I got two personal bests in my prelims today. I am feeling excited and really happy, and it feels like a beautiful day. To my fellow athletes, do your best, be your personal best. To my coaches, thanks so much for training us you guys, for 24/7 coaching and volunteers. It’s great to be here and I’m feeling good. I love my family!"
Athlete James Clifford at the 2025 SOBC Games

 

Pattison Media Prince George

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“It’s wonderful, it’s not just about the athletes, it’s about the families that get together across the community in the same hopes and wishes for their children and for the community. This inclusion thing is really alive tonight, and I think that is very exciting."
Athlete Shaun O'Leary at the 2025 SOBC Games Opening Ceremony

More Pattison Media stories:

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Vista Radio Prince George

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