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Special Olympic Athletes From Colorado Stop By CBS4 Studios To Show Off Medals

DENVER (CBS4) - CBS4 was pleased to have three Colorado athletes who all won medals at the recent Special Olympics World Games in Los Angeles stop by the station on Wednesday.

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Nikia Davenport won three medals in power lifting including gold in bench press. Chris McElroy won a gold in swimming, and Julian Hall a silver in tennis.

The World Games included 6,500 athletes from more than 170 countries.

"The best part of the week was getting a gold medal in front of my whole family, especially my girlfriend; and cheering on all of the other athletes that were competing before I was," McElroy said.

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CBS4's Jim Benemann was lucky enough to get the honor to get his picture taken with the medalists.

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