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SI.com: Arash Markazi: Shriver's legacy lives on through Best Buddies

The sun has yet to rise over the oak trees that line this windy road in Carmel Valley, a sleepy town in Northern California's wine country, when Anthony Kennedy Shriver steps on to a makeshift stage with his sister Maria Shriver while nearly 1,500 bicyclists watch from below. They are preparing to kick off the Audi Best Buddies Challenge, a 100-mile bike ride from Carmel down to San Simeon along the picturesque Pacific Coast Highway to raise money and awareness for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Special Olympics torch lights Eunice Kennedy Shriver's funeral

Family and close friends of Eunice Kennedy Shriver attended a Friday morning funeral for the sister of the late President John F. Kennedy.

With Special Olympics, Shriver leaves legacy of hope

When Katy Wilson was born with Down syndrome, doctors told her mother that the infant likely would never walk or talk.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver dies at 88

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the sister of President John F. Kennedy and a champion of the disabled who founded the Special Olympics, died Tuesday, the Special Olympics said. She was 88.

SI.com: Jack McCallum: Eunice Kennedy Shriver's legacy lives on with Special Olympics

For a while back in the 1930s the initials E.K. appeared several times on a board at the Hyannis Yacht Club on Cape Cod. They indicated the champion sailor for that particular year in the 18-foot wooden sloop division. Edward "Ted" Kennedy, the senator from Massachusetts and the last of nine children of Joseph and Rose Kennedy, would boast from time to time that they stood for "Edward Kennedy." But if sister Eunice, 11 years his senior, was around, she would gleefully point out, "Teddy, you were only a baby at the time."

Eunice Kennedy Shriver's relatives called to hospital

Relatives of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, a sister of President Kennedy, were summoned Monday to a hospital on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, a source close to the family told CNN.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver hospitalized

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, sister of President Kennedy, is in critical but stable condition in a Massachusetts hospital with her family at her side, her family said Friday.

People.com: Obama Apologizes for 'Special Olympics' Comment

"He expressed his disappointment," says Special Olympics chairman Tim Shriver

Special Olympics takes on use of 'R-word'

An unexpected and sudden spotlight on the Special Olympics, an organization that for more than 40 years has served and honored those with intellectual disabilities, comes less than two weeks before the nonprofit launches a new campaign: Spread the Word to the End the Word.

SI.com: Terry McDonell: Long Time Coming

This article is reprinted from the December 8, 2008 issue of Sports Illustrated.

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