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Roller Skating

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Coaching guide, rules and other materials for coaches.
Community Impact

Bethany College Creates First Special Olympics College Club in West Virginia

Four people appear on a Zoom screen.
When Allison Paxton, senior track student-athlete at Bethany College was in first grade, doctors diagnosed her with a form of high-functioning autism.
Blog

2022 Women's History Month: Providing Healing, Promoting Hope

By Renee Manfredi, March 26, 2022
This black and white photo shows a woman standing and speaking to two individuals.
This year's National Women's History Month theme (Providing Healing, Promoting Hope) recognizes the many ways in which women have provided healing and hope to humanity for countless generations.
Press Releases

Special Olympics Partners With Starkey Hearing Technologies

A gift of US$250,000 will make it possible to train more hearing health providers and make healthy hearing more inclusive.

Paul Hertogh

Swimming Subject Matter Expert - Netherlands
Press Releases

Qloo Partners with Special Olympics to Personalize Donor Engagement and Identify New Donors Through Taste AI

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[ New York, New York – November 20, 2024] Qloo, the leading AI for predicting global consumer tastes and preferences, today announced its partnership with Special Olympics to enhance the non-profit organization’s fundraising efforts.
Athletes

Special Olympics Egypt Unified Women’s Team Awarded Order of Sports Merit

By Carolyn Phillips, December 17, 2018
The Egyptian Unified Football team and the Egyptian President lined with 3 Egyptian flags on each side.
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the president of Egypt, has awarded Special Olympics Egypt's female Unified Football team the Order of Sports Merit for the first time in history.
Athletes

Meet the World Games Athletes: Briton Conor Conway

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Briton Conor Conway has lived in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for three years and will represent his adopted home at the World Games.
Athletes

Gold, Silver, and Bronze for Teen Li Xiang from China

China athlete Li Xiang is awarded a gold medal for gymnastics
This time, Li Xiang taken on more gymnastics events than ever: the rings, vault, parallel bars, horizontal bar, pommel horse, plus all-around and floor exercises.
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Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.

It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle of transformation takes place.

Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
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