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Athletes

Special Olympics North America Programs Highlight Healthy Athletes Screenings

By RJ Nealon, October 30, 2025
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Competing in sports at your highest potential requires more than just hard work and determination.
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Asmaa Naser Eddin Wins Medal for Syria Despite Odds

By Denis Schiopu, AIPS Young Reporter Romania, March 22, 2017
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She fled the bomb zone, and she arrived in a country where dreams come true. Learn what she endured just to train.
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Health Screening Changes a Life: Jad’s Story

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When Jad was born in Thailand and diagnosed with Down syndrome, his mother was overcome with sadness and disappointment.
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Be Part of Something Big: Special Olympics World Games Berlin 2023 Tickets Now on Sale

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Ticket sales have started for the largest inclusive sporting event in the world with the Special Olympics World Games taking place in Berlin, Germany from 17 to 25 June 2023.
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Expressing Excellence—Through Sports

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Athletes with autism beat low expectations—and sports records, too!

Athlete Leadership

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If we want a more inclusive organization and accepting world, Special Olympics athletes must be allowed to contribute in ways beyond the sports field. One of the most powerful ways we do this is through Athlete Leadership, which creates opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities to develop and demonstrate their abilities in leadership roles.

Mark Fish: Pass the Ball

Mark Fish: Pass the Ball
South African football legend Mark Fish his own story of inclusion with athlete leader Eltheo Maarman. Join us in learning how Inclusion Works!
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Health Reports

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Special Olympics produces yearly reports to share data we collect on the health of people with intellectual disabilities and our efforts to improve their health. See below for links to the reports.

Brightfield Shadi

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Brightfield is from Botswana, where he was raised by his aunt. She helped him through school and then, in 2008, they found a Special Olympics program which, he says, changed his life. At age 18, he began in athletics—the 100-meter and 200-meter—and won silver at the 2011 World Summer Games in Athens. Then it was on to football (soccer) and volleyball. He is now coaching a unified volleyball team that trained for the 2015 World Summer Games in Los Angeles. Brightfield loves being a coach because he can bring the power of Special Olympics sports to more people with intellectual disabilities.
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