{"id":2071,"date":"2019-01-04T19:16:46","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T00:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/?p=2071"},"modified":"2021-12-07T14:31:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T19:31:29","slug":"athlete-oath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/athlete-oath\/","title":{"rendered":"Athlete Oath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>ATHLETE OATH<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;\">&#8220;<em>Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave at the attempt&#8221;<\/em><\/span><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;\">Eunice Kennedy Shriver jotted down the Special Olympics athlete oath on the morning of July 20, 1968 &#8212; just ahead of the opening of the very first Special Olympics International Games. She recited them at a brief Opening Ceremony at Chicago&#8217;s Soldier Field before the start of competition.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;\">The words emphasize the importance of effort &#8212; and trying for one&#8217;s personal best. Nearly 50 years later, these words resonate with Special Olympics athletes: &#8220;Let me win. But if I cannot win, let me brave in the attempt.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"x-resp-embed x-is-video x-is-youtube\"><iframe title=\"1st Special Olympics World Games-Eunice Kennedy Shriver&#039;s Charge to the Athletes\" width=\"742\" height=\"557\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OiiUPbEhp80?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATHLETE OATH &#8220;Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave at the attempt&#8221; Eunice Kennedy Shriver jotted down the Special Olympics athlete oath on the morning of July 20, 1968 &#8212; just ahead of the opening of the very first Special Olympics International Games. She recited them at a brief Opening Ceremony at Chicago&#8217;s Soldier Field &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/athlete-oath\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-post-no-container.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-2071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athlete","tag-athlete-rights-responsibilities","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}