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>> My name is Mandy Murphy.

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I work for Special Olympics International,

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and I am the Global Account Director
for our partnership with ESPN.

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With Special Olympics, we have thousands
of events a year, all over the world.

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We serve 5 million athletes with intellectual
disabilities and, pending what's happening

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with any sporting event in
any corner of the world,

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we're working to connect our
Special Olympics counterparts all

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over the world to get stories shared with ESPN.

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We have grants happening in all corners
of the world to help grow our programming

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and it's just -- every day's a new adventure.

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For stories with us we have to do a lot of
homework, because Special Olympics athletes,

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they are busy, they play a lot of sports.

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We have over 30 sports and
they're local in their community.

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Most of what we do is grassroots-based,
so getting in touch with their families,

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their coaches, their friends to really build
a profile of who they are and seeing them

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at competition, and working with my colleagues
at our local offices all over the world.

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We have a lot of volunteers and a lot
of staff that all make up our system.

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So, we're doing a lot of phone calls, a lot of
emails to make sure that we get the right people

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in touch with each other to be able to package
the right information to then share back

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with all the folks at ESPN's
headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut.