Nashville has won the bid to host the Special Olympics national games in 2034.
The Special Olympics Tennessee has been working on the bid, which Adam Germek, president and CEO of Special Olympics Tennessee told Post sister publication Nashville Scene, was a 280-page document, for the better part of four years.
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