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Honoring Frank Gehry

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The Special Olympics family extends heartfelt condolences to the loved ones of famed architect Frank Gehry, who passed away on 5 December 2025 at the age of 96.

Leon Bailey

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Premier League Footballer, Aston Villa, and member of Jamaica National Football Team

Toby Enqvist

Toby Enqvist, Special Olympics Board of Directors and Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer, United Airlines
Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer, United Airlines

Daniela Valentino

Daniela Valentino - SO Italy, Health Messenger
Special Olympics Italy
Programs

Sudan

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Special Olympics Sudan 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.

Download the Special Olympics Sudan FactSheet (PDF)
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Syria

Athletes playing basketball on a court.
Special Olympics Syria 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.

Download the Special Olympics Syria FactSheet (PDF)
Sport Partnerships

International Powerlifting Federation

The partnership between Special Olympics International (SOI) and the International Powerlifting Federation (IPF) was formed in 2011 when SOI and IPF officials convened at the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Athens, Greece to discuss common interests. Out of this meeting evolved an understanding of common goals and a Memorandum of Understanding which allowed for Special Olympics athlete involvement in IPF competition. Since then, Special Olympics athletes have competed in a Special Olympics division in two IPF championships—the 2012 IPF World Championships in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico and the 2013 IPF World Masters Championships in Orlando, Florida. Plans are in place to have continued Special Olympics participation in future IPF events.

Louis Lauria

Louis Lauria, Special Olympics Chief, Sport and Competition
Chief of Sport and Competition
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Jordan

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Special Olympics Jordan 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.

Download the Special Olympics Jordan FactSheet (PDF)
50 Game Changers Espanol

Rajah Diouri Sy

Rajah Diouri Sy
Rajah, que ejerce como voluntaria el rol de Directora Nacional de Olimpiadas Especiales Senegal, hizo que su programa creciera de 6 atletas a más de 3,000, a través de alianzas estratégicas con todos los sectores. ¡Conoce más sobre sus esfuerzos por cambiar las reglas del juego en Senegal!
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