Team Nearing Completion

 2025 FINAL LEG TEAM 

NEARLY COMPLETE

Turin, Italy in winter

As this message is being typed, our Final Leg team sits at 64 runners representing every corner of the globe. We are hoping to add one more to our group, which would give us a solid 65. Coupled with our athletes, Italian police officers, and our Logistics Team, it looks like our team will be comprised of about 103 dedicated members.

The next process for us to complete is the selection of our athlete runners. Each Special Olympics program in the world that has an active LETR component can nominate an athlete to be on the Final Leg team. That nomination includes a very detailed application, which provides assurances that the nominated athlete can endure very long days and nights, with a considerable amount of traveling. 

Once the applications are received a committee of five people, that includes the Team Captain, two route leaders, a Team Leader, and an LETR Liaison go through the very difficult process of selecting the runners. We hope to have that process complete in the next two-and-one-half weeks.

The one athlete we know will be with us in Italy is Dustin Edmonson of North

Carolina (pictured below). Dustin is the athlete representative to the Final Leg Planning Committee. He is a Final Leg veteran, having participated in the 2023 Final Leg in Berlin. He is an extraordinary individual, who also serves on the LETR International Executive Council. You will absolutely love Dustin.

You will never see this smile disappear from Dustin's face!

One of our next steps for you will be to collect uniform sizing. I can't say this strongly enough; please monitor your email and this blog for that information. It is IMPERATIVE that we receive your responses immediately. As you are aware, we are way behind the curve in planning, so your cooperation is critical to our success!

A question for you: did you run today?

See you all soon!