SO Asia Pacific Games - farewells

From the Champions Daily, 8th December 2013 (published by Special Olympics Australia):

Three of our bocce boys gathered together yesterday to share their
final goodbyes at the Athlete Village: (L-R) Jim Aarsse (QLD),
Clark Hampton (QLD) and Cameron Chance (NSW).
Photo: Sharon Nixon, Special Olympics Australia.

Congratulations to the athletes, and to Special Olympics Australia on staging and participating in the first ever ASia Pacific Games in Newcastle last week.  The closing ceremony was held on Saturday.  Team Australia took out more than 700 medals!

Our thanks to SO Australia for their permission to share their photos throughout the week - the communications team did a fabulous job of keeping us informed through the Champions Daily and hundreds of images posted in their Flickr group. You can see all of the galleries here.

• SPECIAL OLYMPICS: ‘Take a bow, Newcastle’, Helen Gregory, Newcastle Herald, 8th December 2013 - more photos and links to earlier galleries.

If you have photos and stories from the Games that you would like to share here, please email blogeditor@dsansw.org.au