Malta yesterday obtained its first medals at the Athens Special Olympics. Jean Paul Fenech and Charmaine Mifsud won a gold and a silver medal respectively in the 50m breast stroke in their categories. In our picture, a young unidentified athlete of Malta’s Special Olympics team during the opening ceremony of the Special Olympics Athens 2011 World Games, as fireworks explode over the marble Panathinaikon stadium in Athens on Saturday. More than 7,500 athletes with mental disabilities from 185 countries are taking part in the Special Olympics which will come to an end next Monday