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"Nicole Scherzinger has shown her support for the Special Olympics at a tea party for British athletes. The X Factor judge - who performed at the closing ceremony for the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Athens - met with medal-winning gymnast and table tennis player Greg Silvester during the reception at Coca-Cola&amp;#039;s headquarters on Wednesday (June 12).  Scherzinger played table tennis with Silvester, autographed his shirt and gave him a personal note reading: &amp;quot;To Greg, you inspire me. All my love, Nicole.&amp;quot; The singer was a guest of Special Olympics CEO and chairman Timothy Shriver, who is the son of the organisation&amp;#039;s founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver. While visiting the UK, Shriver was keynote speaker at a parliamentary roundtable to discuss ways of creating more opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities to access sport. Had the pleasure of meeting @TimShriver and Greg w/the #SpecialOlympicsGB what an honour xo pic.twitter.com/qdLgODnk02 \u00E2\u20AC\u201D Nicole Scherzinger (@NicoleScherzy) June 12, 2013 The Coca-Cola Foundation has awarded $400,000 (\u00C2\u00A3254,577) in funding to Special Olympics GB ahead of the National Summer Games, which take place in Bath between Wednesday, August 28 and Sunday, September 1. The next global summer games are scheduled to take place in Los Angeles in 2015. View all today&amp;#039;s best celebrity pictures - photo gallery:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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