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In the News

Special Olympics Chairman Tim Shriver joins the BBC Global News Happy Pod

Tim Shriver on stage waving to an audience.
Special Olympics Chairman, Tim Shriver, and BBC Global News Happy Pod’s Harry Bligh share a conversation about Special Olympics, the importance of unity and the power of inclusive education.
In the News

Tim Shriver Interviewed by José Díaz-Balart on MSNBC about Pope Francis’ Relationship with Special Olympics

Two men shaking hands.
Special Olympics Chairman Tim Shriver was interviewed LIVE by MSNBC host José Díaz-Balart on Wednesday, 23 April following the Pontiff’s passing on Easter Monday.

Freda Fung

Freda Fung, Special Olympics Regional President & Managing Director, East Asia
Regional President & Managing Director, East Asia

Raedian Felix

Raedian Felix, 2023 Global Athlete Congress Participant
Special Olympics Dominica

Tatjana Raible

Tatjana Raible, 2023 Global Athlete Congress Participant
Special Olympics Germany

Mack Hollins

Mack Hollins, NFL Player, New England Patriots Wide Receiver
NFL Player, New England Patriots Wide Receiver
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Mauritania

Athletes playing basketball on a court.
Special Olympics Mauritania 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.

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Guinea

Athletes playing basketball on a court.
Special Olympics Guinea 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.
Partners of the Movement

US Office of Special Education Programs

The Office of Special Education Programs at the US Department of Education has supported Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools® in creating communities of inclusion and shaping attitudes on school campuses across the United States.
Community Impact

Changing Hearts and Minds Starts in Schools

One adult and a group of young kids in a circle hugging one another wearing Special Olympics El Salvador neon jerseys.
Special Olympics believes that in order to create lasting attitudinal change across the world, the focus must begin on today’s youth.
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