{"id":38528,"date":"2025-03-18T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T10:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/specialolympics.ch\/medien\/great-games-great-swiss-athletes\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T12:01:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T11:01:19","slug":"great-games-great-swiss-athletes","status":"publish","type":"soswi_media","link":"https:\/\/soswi.compresso.website\/en\/media\/great-games-great-swiss-athletes\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Games \u2013 great Swiss athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The World Winter Games for people with intellectual disabilities concluded with a celebratory ceremony in Sestriere. At the world&#8217;s largest sporting and humanitarian event, 39 athletes from Switzerland competed. They shone in their sports and mentally surpassed themselves.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Die World Winter Games Turin 2025 sind f\u00fcr das 68-k\u00f6pfige Team Switzerland Geschichte. Nach 10 intensiven Tagen k\u00f6nnen sich die Schweizer Sportler:innen \u00fcber viele Medaillen freuen. Viel wichtiger jedoch sind die eigenen pers\u00f6nlichen Leistungen, die jeder einzelne Athlet und jede Athletin w\u00e4hrend der letzten Monate und nun anl\u00e4sslich der Games vollbracht hat.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over a good 10 months, the athletes of Team Switzerland have been preparing specifically and have mastered incredible challenges on site in Pragelato, Turin, Bardonecchia or Sestriere.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Games are more than a sporting event \u2013 they change lives<br\/><\/strong>The preparation for the major sporting event and finally the participation in the World Games is a defining experience for the participating athletes. They can participate in a unique major event and take home many unforgettable impressions. Just as important, however, is the sustainable development of the athletes, the sense of achievement, the personal bests, knowing that they have reached a goal. All this strengthens their self-confidence, their self-assurance and their independence. Thanks to these positive changes, they also master their everyday lives better.    <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Images are <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wearepepper.ch\/de\/db\/specialolympics\/2442\"><strong>available here<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><br\/>Image credit: WeArePepper\/Name of the photographer<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The videos are <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCoOEahq_-7ij1awxTeOtJHA\"><strong>available here<\/strong><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Winter Games for people with intellectual disabilities concluded with a celebratory ceremony in Sestriere. 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