Swim Team Page #7

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They didn't say anything

to us about it.

All right. Give me a kiss.

See you later.

-Bye, guys!

-Have a good time.

-Yeah.

-All right.

Bye-bye.

If somebody can learn

from my mistakes,

then that's a blessing

because I didn't know.

I didn't know that,

once you accept that diploma,

you're done.

We're so delighted to have

all of you here

as we celebrate the athletes

of Special Olympics

who train and compete year-round

throughout New Jersey.

Over 2,500 of these athletes

will be participating

at these summer games.

To walk into the stadium

and see all these special-needs

kids in there,

to see the families and

the support all these kids have,

it is unreal.

It's all about people

with special-needs kids

going involved with each other.

As the last of our athletes

file into the stadium,

we're reminded of the words

of Winston Churchill:

"You never run away

from anything,

and you never give up."

Mikey! Come here!

Turn it loose now.

I'll see you at the other end.

All right? Go!

Mike!

Jump out! Jump out, okay?

Come on, now! Come on, now!

-No!

-Let's go, big guy!

-Take your mark.

-Go, Mikey!

Go, Mikey!

Go, baby! Turn it loose!

Turn it loose!

Turn it loose!

Turn it loose!

Now go!

Flip and go! Flip and go!

Go, Mikey! Go, Mikey!

Go, Mikey!

Go, Mikey! Go, Mikey!

Turn it loose, baby!

Yeah!

Hey! That was a race!

That was a race!

Good job, baby!

Hey, 29.29!

You broke 30!

What did I tell you?

Give me some love. Good job!

Good job.

Take a picture.

Look at. Look at.

Come on. Smile, Scotty!

Gold medalist Michael McQuay!

Mike was born.

The expectations

I had were very high.

I knew I had something here

if I had a son,

that he was going to be

something special,

and then, when we found out he

was autistic, it just...

It was hard,

but then learning about

his moods and trying to learn,

I think I became

a better teacher

and a better father

by having an autistic son...

I don't get no love?

By spending more time

and being around more,

always wondering and caring

about what he's doing

and how he's performing.

Okay, we got one more,

buddy, one more.

He's funny.

-Damn!

-Kelvin, Kelvin, Kelvin,

come on, buddy!

Just calm down.

Hey, hey, hey.

You're good. You're good.

Come on. Calm down.

Kelvin! Kelvin! Kelvin! Kelvin!

Come on. Come on. Come on.

Come on. Come on.

You're okay. Right here.

You're good. Good. You're good.

-It's not good.

-You are good.

You're ready to go, okay? Ready?

-But it wasn't all right.

-He's spitting on me!

But it's okay now.

-It's not all right.

-We let it go, okay?

-Like, fix the problem.

-We fixed the problem.

We let it go, right?

So let it go.

You fixed the problem means

it's all good.

It's all good.

-After fixed, all good.

-We're all good, okay?

We're all good.

All right. One more, and we're

going to check in, okay?

Hey, what the hell

are you guys doing?

Listen, you got little kids

here.

You got little kids.

You got to calm down, okay?

Something happened last time...

I know, but you got to calm

down just a little bit, okay?

Sometimes we have bad day,

something

that cannot happen at home.

But you're having

a good day right now.

You're doing really good today.

It's good to have good day.

Sometimes, we have bad day.

Something might happen,

but it can't happen at my house.

If one thing happens,

I might go to jail.

But then so don't let it

happen here, okay?

If jail happens to me,

that's why I never come back

to my real home never again.

We're not going to jail.

No way, right?

-That's not going to happen.

-No, it's not going to happen.

Because we're special

people here.

That's right.

You're right. We're right.

Hey, I'm sorry.

It wasn't my Tourette's.

Something was really

coming out from my lungs.

-Okay. Kelvin?

-Yeah, what's up?

He said take a deep breath.

Count to 10.

He said...

Just going to give it

a count to 10.

Yeah, sometimes that helps.

-And just think.

-Exactly.

Sometimes that happens, right?

All right. Let's go, guys!

We got to check in.

Go.

Go, go check in, guys.

All right. We got it.

We got it.

We're good. Let's see what

stage are you guys?

-You guys check in?

-Yep.

Kelvin, you might want to

count to 10, take a deep breath.

What are you swimming?

-Freestyle.

-Very good.

-Right. How many laps?

-Two laps.

Two laps.

What are you swimming?

Two laps.

-What are you swimming?

-Fifty breaststroke, two laps.

-How many laps?

-Two.

-Guys, this is our last relay.

-Last relay. All right.

Last relay.

You got to do fast as you can.

Yeah, we'll try

as hard as we can!

-Do it fast as you can.

-Last one of the year.

Let's do it.

All right?

Go! Let's go!

Let's go! Let's go!

-Go, Robert!

-Going to turn it loose, right?

-Got you, Coach.

-What's that?

-Got you, Coach.

-You got it?

All right. All right.

I wish I will make your face.

We're going to make

a happy face, right?

-Happy face.

-Make me a happy face.

Hayden, stay in your group.

You're third.

Robert, you're ahead of him.

Get in front of him.

Medley relay, backstrokers,

take your mark.

Go!

Get up, get up. Hayden, get up.

Hayden, get up.

I can do it.

I can do it! I can do it!

Go, Robert, go!

Stay in the middle!

Let's go!

Let's go, Robert! Let's go!

All right! Pull! Pull!

Pull, one, two, three,

four, five! Go, go, go!

We got to catch him!

We got to catch him!

We got to catch him now!

All right!

You got this!

You got to go and catch him!

Go! Come on!

Go, Robert!

Go, Rob! Go, Rob! Go, Robbie!

Go, Robbie!

Go, Robert! Pull!

Go, Robbie!

Go, go, go, go, go!

Yeah!

Go, Robert!

What'd you do? What'd you do?

Give me some love.

Give me some love.

Good job. Good job.

-I showed you!

-You showed me!

Go get in your line

over there! Good job!

Go, Robert!

Go, Robert!

Ladies and gentlemen,

I'd like to present

to you gold medalists

the Jersey Hammerheads!

Gold medal is $20.

Silver is $15.

Bronze is $10.

And this is the $5

one I get for that one.

-What you going to buy?

-We don't know.

We'll find out what happens.

We'll find out what happens.

Okay.

We're pretty happy.

He decided to change his mind

and join the team and compete.

I was just jumping for joy!

Did you just see me?

You didn't see me

because you were swimming.

You were just going so fast.

I need to give you a hug.

I'm so proud of you.

You don't want joke about that.

I might get in trouble.

I'm okay. I'm all right.

I shouldn't play games like

that. I might get in trouble.

Yes, okay.

Your total is $27.23.

You want me to get

for you, Mommy?

-Yeah.

-Nothing has prepared me for,

I mean, dealing with Kelvin.

There are several stages,

I guess, mental stages.

The first time we discovered

that his disability

is kind of still asking,

"Why me? Why?"

Okay, but I think

I got over it pretty quick.

I mean, and then the next stage,

"What can we do?"

So we try to do something, and

we're still doing it right now.

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