Coen Van Putten (right), manager sports, Special Olympics Asia Pacific Region, at an interaction with the media in Puducherry on Friday. | Photo Credit: S_S_KUMAR more-in The first edition of the Special Olympics International Unified Girls Netball Tournament will be held on September 1 and 2 at the Rajiv Gandhi Indoor Stadium in Uppalam here. Victor R. Vaz, national sport director of SO Bharat, told presspersons here on Friday that two teams from SO Bharat and one team from Sri Lanka would compete in the triangular series following the double round robin league format. Drawn from many States Team SO Bharat includes athletes from Andhra Pradesh, Puducherry, Maharashtra, Delhi, Chandigarh and Punja. Each team will have nine athletes, including persons with and without intellectual disabilities to team up and play. The tournament is supported by Lions Club International and Aruna Abhey Oswal Trust. Gurmeet Singh, Vice-Chancellor of Pondicherry University, will inaugurate the tournament at 11 a.m. on Saturday.

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