Special Olympics athlete vanishes after another found safe

During the 24-plus-hour searching period, the Special Olympics World Games released a picture and description of Andi Gusmari on their Facebook page and requested help from the public.

The teen was reported missing the same morning that an Albanian Special Olympics athlete who disappeared Saturday was found hundreds of miles from Los Angeles in Hayward.

Los Angeles Police Department officer Drake Madison said 15-year-old Shion Isimel of the Ivory Coast has been located, but provided no further details.

“We don’t know how he got there”, said Jeff Carr, chief operating officer of the 2015 Special Olympics World Games.

A surveillance camera photo shows the French-speaking golfer wearing glasses, a white athletic jacket with an orange shirt, white trousers and sandals.

“The World Games was an experience that our families and athletes will remember for a lifetime”, he said.

Gusmari, who had his paperwork with him, was protected and cozy however police weren’t capable of talk very properly with him due to his speech incapacity, Jakub stated. The autistic boy apparently left his nation’s delegation as they prepared to return home around dawn. He disappeared Saturday night from a festival at the University of Southern California.

“We are delighted that Andi is safe”, Carr said in a statement.

The Special Olympics ended Sunday with the closing ceremony at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

Twelve years later, he has made history by becoming the first Indian at the 2015 Special Olympics to bag a gold, winning the GF Gold-Level 2 Alternate Shot Team Play event on July 31. Started in 1997, Healthy Athletes provides free medical check-ups and gear, such as prescription eyeglasses or properly fitting shoes, for any and all Special Olympics athletes.

“We were told even when he was real young that if we could find something that he could really focus at, that he could enjoy, that it would bring out the best in him”, Jeffrey Rohrer said. He was separated from his delegation when he went to the restroom, and the delegation noticed he was missing during a bed check at the campus dormitories later that night, Kato said.

Event organizers say that some of the Special Olympics athletes they meet have never been examined by any kind of doctor before.