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In the News

USA Today Sports Celebrates the Legacy of Special Olympics Founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver

Eunice Kennedy Shriver meets Special Olympics World Games supporters while in Shanghai, in 2007.
USA Today Sports Celebrates the Legacy of Special Olympics Founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Videos

More Than The Final Score: SO Costa Rica Head Coach Mariana Molina

More Than The Final Score: SO Costa Rica Head Coach Mariana Molina
For Special Olympics Costa Rica Head Coach Mariana Molina, every training session, every match, and every opportunity is about so much more than the final score.
Community Impact

Polar Plunge® for Special Olympics

Man jumping off a dock and doing a belly flop as onlookers watch.
Every year brave souls line up to take an icy plunge, the Polar Plunge! The Polar Plunge—sometimes held in conjunction with the Law Enforcement Torch Run— is a huge fundraising effort benefiting Special Olympics and the athletes.
Programs

Niger

Athletes playing basketball on a court.
Special Olympics Niger provides empowerment, acceptance and joy. But for every Special Olympics athlete, there are many people with intellectual disabilities we haven’t reached yet.

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.
Athletes

Ready for Berlin 2023

Ready for Berlin 2023
10 October marks 250 days until the kickoff of the Special Olympics World Games Berlin 2023! Hear from some of the athletes competing about what they are most looking forward to when they arrive in Germany.
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Humans of New York covers Special Olympics World Games in Abu Dhabi

Brandon Stanton of Humans of New York will be doing a special series on athletes, coaches, families, and volunteers participating at the Games.

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Special Olympics is a global movement that unleashes the human spirit every day around the world through the transformative power and joy of sport. Through programming in sports, health, education and community building, Special Olympics is tackling the inactivity, stigma, isolation, and injustice that people with intellectual disabilities (ID) face.
Community Impact

Innovation for Inclusion

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University Students Collaborate to Create Inclusive Solutions for Special Olympics through the Accenture Innovation Challenge
Community Impact

2026 Special Olympics USA Games: Let the Games Begin!

By Christian Holleman, June 21, 2026
Demi Lovato performs on stage during the 2026 Special Olympics USA Games Opening Ceremony at Huntington Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. Athletes from delegations across the United States gather on the field in colorful team uniforms while the Minneapolis skyline rises in the background.
It's a crisp, sun-kissed sky in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Just past the plaza entrance of Huntington Bank Stadium, the city skyline sits perfectly in the end zone corner.
Community Impact

Special Olympics Northern California Adds Hardware to Medal Collection

By Christian Holleman, June 26, 2026
Patrick Underly competes on the track at the University of Minnesota Track & Field Stadium during the 2026 Special Olympics USA Games, focused mid-race.
It’s a warm, cloudy day at the University of Minnesota Track & Field Stadium. Special Olympics Northern California athlete Patrick Underly is with his team, surrounded by state Programs from across the country.
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