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2004 Games Info

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"The National Kidney Foundation organizes the US Transplant Games to demonstrate to the public that transplantation works and to illustrate the tremendous need for more organ donors. Transplant athletes compete as if they've never been sick a day in their lives. In fact, many have been very sick and would have died without an organ donor," says John Davis, CEO of the National Kidney Foundation.

This July, the National Kidney Foundation is conducting its eighth biennial Olympic-style U.S. Transplant Games in Minneapolis-St Paul and the U of MN. The NKF's 51 Affiliates across the US organize teams of athletes who train for any of the 12 sports showcased. The athletes and team organizers raise funds and seek team sponsors to enable them to travel and compete at the Games. Teams increase local community awareness of the need for all organ donations and attract positive media attention on the successes of organ and tissue transplantation. The U.S. Transplant Games is the ONLY national athletic competition for recipients of all life-saving solid organ transplants. Athletic participation in the Games is open to anyone who has received a transplant of a heart, liver, kidney, lung, pancreas or a bone marrow transplant. The U.S. Transplant Games provide the transplant community the opportunity to honor the extraordinary generosity of donors and donor families. It is these individuals who make transplantation possible by providing the "Gift of Life" to some of the more than 85,000 people who are in need of a life-saving organ transplant.

NKF is the world's largest organization dedicated to promoting organ and tissue donation. It provides education and offers programs for transplant recipients, donor families, living donors and the professionals who care for them.

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