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Sports & Coaching

Figure Skating

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Coaching guide, rules, and other materials for coaches.

A sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform spins, jumps, footwork and other intricate and challenging moves on ice skates.
In the News

Now Streaming on Kanopy

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For the first time ever, Kanopy streams Special Olympics produced short documentaries.
Tributes

A Letter from Rosario Marin

Through your life work and these words, you transformed my life in ways that cannot be measured.
Tributes

A Letter from David Stern

Thank you for demonstrating that sports does indeed have a purpose grounded in the values of both competition and compassion.
Athletes

Siblings of Special Olympics Athletes Speak Passionately about Inclusion

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Siblings of Special Olympics athletes speak passionately about inclusion.
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Macau

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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.
Community Impact

NCAA Division III Students and Special Olympics Athletes Build Strong Friendships Through Partnership

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Friendship, belonging, kindness, connection and community. These are just a few of the words used to describe what inclusion and the Division III/Special Olympics partnership means to them.
In the News

90Min Covers Unified Cup 2022 Finals

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90Min.com, the online football (soccer) news site, covered the women’s and men’s Division 1 final matches of the Special Olympics Unified Cup Detroit 2022.
Inclusion Works

Inclusion Works: Meet Joshua

Photo 1: A man standing in a kitchen wearing an apron and medals around his neck smiles at the camera. Photo 2: A man wearing sunglasses, a baseball cap, t-shirt and shorts swings his tennis racket with a crowd of spectators in the background.
Thanks to his talent and hard work, Joshua turned a temp job into a permanent contract—working for Ajax Football Club!
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