{"id":12512,"date":"2024-03-14T22:25:40","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T21:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/specialolympics.ch\/blog\/2024\/03\/14\/the-fire-is-lit\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T11:42:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T10:42:22","slug":"the-fire-is-lit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soswi.compresso.website\/en\/blog\/2024\/03\/14\/the-fire-is-lit\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fire is Lit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All 4 One \u2013 the Special Olympics anthem composed by Trauffer and Jesse Ritch \u2013 was just one of the many highlights of the atmospheric opening ceremony of the National Winter Games. The 20-member Special Olympics choir \u2013 reinforced by Linda F\u00e4h, Roberto de Luca, Chiara Jacomet, and Marina Claire Belp\u00eache \u2013 rocked the rousing song with infectious joy and energy. Christa Rigozzi hosted the evening with her usual eloquence, warmth, and professionalism. She was accompanied by Caroline Fl\u00fceler, co-host and Curling athlete. The raising of the Special Olympics flag and the reciting of the Athlete&#8217;s Oath were particularly moving. The light show by Gery Hofstetter was also spectacular, and as a brilliant finale \u2013 after Matthias Keller and Ivo Tippmar, flanked by police officers, lit the Flame of Hope with the torch \u2013 the Alphorn group Trio Guferli performed a show act.     <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, the competitions and further divisionings begin.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/h2u.lnk.to\/All4One\">Download the Games Song here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/specialolympicsswitzerland\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Results and start lists can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/soswi.compresso.website\/start-und-ranglisten-nwg-2024\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Photos are continuously uploaded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wearepepper.ch\/de\/db\/specialolympics\/2428\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All 4 One \u2013 the Special Olympics anthem composed by Trauffer and Jesse Ritch \u2013 was just&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220],"tags":[223],"class_list":["post-12512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-national-games-en","tag-haslital-brienz-2024"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soswi.compresso.website\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soswi.compresso.website\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soswi.compresso.website\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soswi.compresso.website\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soswi.compresso.website\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/soswi.compresso.website\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51162,"href":"https:\/\/soswi.compresso.website\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12512\/revisions\/51162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soswi.compresso.website\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soswi.compresso.website\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soswi.compresso.website\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soswi.compresso.website\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}