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Full Team Meeting

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            First Full Team Meeting Hello Everyone, The pieces are starting to fall into place! We have successfully assembled the entire running team, which is 59 strong, including Torch Runners, Athletes and our illustrious Team Leaders. We will be adding our compliment of Logistics folks in the coming months. In the meantime, it's time to start getting ready. I know we are 11 months away, but that time will go by in a flash! Our first full team meeting will take place on Wednesday, August 20th at 2 PM Mountain Time (4 PM EDT; 3 PM CDT, 1 PM PDT, 12 PM Alaska and 10 AM in Hawaii). The link is at the bottom of this post and will be sent to you in an email. It is impossible to try and meet all of our scheduling needs, so if you cannot make this meeting, I will share the transcription.  As you are aware, the start of our Final Leg will officially begin in Chicago with the Flame Lighting on May 29th. The Athletes and Torch Runners from Minnesota an...

Welcome!

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  Welcome to the 2026 USA Games  Final Leg Team! It is with tremendous excitement that I welcome you to the 2026 USA Games Final Leg Team! In less than one year we will embark on an extraordinary journey to raise awareness for individuals with intellectual disabilities, inclusion, the power of the Law Enforcement Torch Run, and to promote the Special Olympics USA Games. This blog site will be home for the distribution of nearly all information you will need to prepare for our mission. I am also allowing access to program CEO's, LETR Liaisons and Torch Run Directors so they may follow along. Although we will not be sharing information here that is necessarily confidential (although you will know details about the Final Leg before the public), this is NOT a public blog, and I respectfully ask that you not share access to this page to anyone not formally affiliated with the team.                         ...