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Special Olympics Unified 3x3 Basketball World Cup

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The inaugural Special Olympics Unified 3x3 Basketball World Cup will feature basketball players with and without intellectual disabilities playing on the same team.

Special Olympics Europe Eurasia

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Special Olympics Europe Eurasia provides sporting events for people with intellectual disabilities in almost 60 countries.
Fitness Through Sport

Performance Stations

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Performance Stations are events held at, or near, the field of play at tournaments/competitions or Games that are designed to educate and activate athletes and their supporters in the tenets of fitness: nutrition, hydration and physical activity.

50 Game Changers

ESPN and Special Olympics have teamed up on a year-long storytelling initiative telling the stories of game changers and game changing moments toward inclusion. Check back each week for a new story of inclusion.
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World Winter Games Alaska 2001

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Anchorage, Alaska • 4th – 11th March 2001
Sport and Competition

World Winter Games Toronto, Canada 1997

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Toronto, Canada • 1st – 8th Feb 1997
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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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We are a global movement helping to transform the lives of children and adults with intellectual disabilities and build communities of unity and inclusion all over the world. Join our team!
50 Game Changers Espanol

Ricardo Thornton

Ricardo Thornton sobrevivió a la notoria Institución Forest Haven (en las afueras de Washington, DC), un lugar que él describe como una prisión para personas con discapacidad intelectual.
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