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2006 Special Olympic Games

The route of the torch through the streets of Barcelona

For the second consecutive time, abertis sponsored the route that the Special Olympic Games torch followed. In its eighth edition, the games were held in Lloret de Mar from 11th to 15th October and brought together some 2,200 sportspeople from 17 countries and 1,200 volunteers. The objective of this event was to foster personal development and the integration of mentally handicapped people through sport, ideas that fit in with abertis’ priority to favour quality of life and the well being of people.

On the route the Olympic torch took through the various cities that have previously hosted the Special Olympics, three members of the acesa athletics team, Xavier Comas, Álex Calamardo and José Antonio Ríos, took turns to accompany the mentally handicapped sportspeople. In fact, the abertis corporation participated in this project right from the lighting of the torch with the Olympic flame in Lausanne (Switzerland) on 22nd September, where the corporation was represented by Ricard Maxenchs, director of Institutional Relations and Quality at abertis and member of the Honorary Committee of the 2006 Lloret Special Olympic Games.

abertis also collaborated with these Special Olympics by providing the photo exhibition "Camins d’emocions" (Paths of Emotions), which the Corporation promoted after the last edition of the Games. The exhibition could be visited during the event at the village in Lloret de Mar.

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