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In the News

Slovakia Wins Inaugural Unified Cup

By Special Olympics Staff, August 03, 2018
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Slovakia returned home from Chicago as champions of the inaugural Special Olympics Unified Cup presented by Toyota.
Inclusive Health

Health Messengers

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The only way to end exclusion is to have people who face these challenges daily help create the solution.
Community Impact

Special Olympics Wishes You a Happy Mother’s Day

Special Olympics Wishes You a Happy Mother’s Day
Happy Mother’s Day to all moms and mom-figures around the world of the athletes, coaches, volunteers, staff and supporters of the Special Olympics movement.
Videos

Keep Up With the Girls Challenge

Keep Up With the Girls Challenge
The ‘Keep Up With the Girls’ awareness campaign is being backed by Special Olympics Global Ambassadors Didier Drogba and Cafu, FIFA Legend, Verónica "Vero" Boquete, Netherlands football star, Kirsten van de Ven. These stars and others are showing off their football skills and challenging everyone to make their own #KeepUpWithTheGirls challenge video! Learn more: http://bit.ly/2V9xH2D Download

David Duncan

David Duncan, Special Olympics Jamaica
Special Olympics Jamaica
Youth Voices

Lucia Talacikova and Kristina Kvintova

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What We Do

Golisano Health Leadership Awards

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The Golisano Health Leadership Awards recognize health champions—leaders and organizations—that are making a significant contribution to equal access to health, fitness or wellness for people with intellectual disabilities. The award also promotes awareness for the progress and extraordinary efforts toward fulfilling the goals, values, and mission of Special Olympics Health work. This is the highest Special Olympics honor for health partners.
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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.

Download the Special Olympics Massachusetts Fact Sheet
Tributes

A Letter from Vice President Joe Biden

Today, thanks to Eunice and countless other dedicated individuals she inspired, Special Olympics serves over 3 million athletes with intellectual disabilities in every corner of the globe.
Community Impact

Catching Big Air, Creating Bigger Change

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Hannah Teter and her brother, Amen Teter, grew up snowboarding, inheriting a love for the sport from their parents.
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