Craig Gilbert is the President of the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut chapter of the US Olympians and Paralympians Association. He competed in the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984 in Team Handball. After graduating from West Point Academy, he became a Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army serving in Afghanistan. He has been hugely helpful to our programme today by sending out a letter to all his Olympians strongly encouraging their participation.

“It has been an honour to work with numerous Olympians and Paralympians over the last seven years to bring them back into the family. Many of the people that Sri Chinmoy has known – Carl Lewis and many other Olympic athletes and Paralympic athletes – were very, very important to him…We do not accomplish anything by ourselves. We accomplish things not individually, but we do it with the people around us — friends, coaches, teammates and family.”