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Fitness Movies

Video 1: Welcome and Warm Up

Two athletes and a trainer in the ring performing stretching exercises.
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Athletes

Gaining Confidence with Micheline

Gaining Confidence with Micheline
In finding inclusion, Micheline also found confidence and independence.
Videos

Meet a Self-Advocate: Hillary Kern

Meet a Self-Advocate: Hillary Kern
Athletes

World Health Day

World Health Day
Special Olympics athletes from around the world thank our healthcare workers for their tireless efforts to keep us all safe!

VIDEO 1: BIENVENIDA Y CALENTAMIENTO

Esta es tu introducción a la Escuela de Fuerza. Pon en práctica los calentamientos que te presentamos en este video antes de tu rutina de ejercicios. El calentamiento prepara tus músculos para el ejercicio. Eso te ayuda a tener un mejor rendimiento y evita que te sientas adolorido al finalizar la rutina. Aumentarás tu flexibilidad y evitarás futuras lesiones.
Videos

COVID-19 & IDD Presentation

COVID-19 & IDD Presentation
The American Academy of Developmental Medicine & Dentistry (AADMD) recently invited Dr. Alicia Bazzano, Special Olympics Chief Health Officer, to keynote a webinar titled COVID-19 and People with ID: Special Olympics Responds.Dr. Bazzano was introduced by Dustin Plunkett, an athlete leader who was referred at a Special Olympics Healthy Athletes screening to a local dentist, who identified him as having treatable gum cancer.Dr. Bazzano went on to discuss the health disparities that are hitting people with intellectual disabilities particularly hard during the COVID-19 global outbreak. She outlined ways in which Special Olympics is filling those gaps and shared steps that health professionals can take right away to help deliver inclusive health services.
Inclusion Works

Congratulations to the Unified Generation

Congratulations to the Unified Generation
NFL star Eddie Yarbrough learned the importance of including people with intellectual disabilities in his high school; now he's making sure they are recognized as they graduate...and start to build an inclusive world!
Inclusion Works

Forgotten

Philippines athlete "AJ" was living alone, malnourished, without care or supervision in an abandoned home during the quarantine lockdown; a Special Olympics staffer tracks him down, saving him…just in time. Read more about AJ's story.
Videos

Jamie Cruz at the UN

Jamie Cruz at the UN
In 2018, I was contacted by the self-advocacy organization Empower Us; they gave me the opportunity to travel to the UK that same year, and in 2019, to New York, to address the United Nations on the importance of sports, culture and hobbies for people with disabilities. I have also traveled to Bolivia, Mexico and Colombia to talk about my life experiences.Full Story

Claudia Barral - SO Panama SOLA

Claudia Barral - SO Panama SOLA
Special Olympics joins the International Council for Coaching Excellence (ICCE) on Coaches Day 2020 to celebrate Special Olympics coaches worldwide.To learn more about being a Special Olympics coach, check out the free online learning portal.You can post your own #ThanksCoach video on your social media platforms!See all videos.
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