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People Magazine Interviews with Gleyber Torres and Willson Contreras for Espanol Escuela de Fuerza/School of Strength Exercise Program

Special Olympics ambassadors, Gleyber Torres and Willson Contreras, pose with a baseball and bat for Escuela de Fuerza marketing photo.
People en Espanol interviewed MLB baseball players and Special Olympics Global Ambassadors Gleyber Torres and Willson Contreras about their involvement in the Escuela de Fuerza exercise video series.
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Special Olympics Athletes & Professionals Come Together at the 2022 X Games

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Twenty Special Olympics snowboarders and skiers participated in the 2022 X Games alongside professional athletes this past Friday in Aspen, Colorado.
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Youth Leaders Promote Digital Accessibility for All

Graphic design including two photographs of Special Olympics Youth Leaders and the following text: On Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Special Olympics Youth Leaders around the world are planning and implementing Youth Innovation Projects to remove barriers to digital accessibility and create a more inclusive, more connected future for all.
Special Olympics Cape Verde Youth Leaders Edna and Clenira know that improving digital accessibility is essential to building a more inclusive world.
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Nothing But Love at the Opening Ceremony

Timothy Shriver smiles and laughs, an athletes has his arms up in celebration.
Other global event staff would have tackled him.
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Special Olympics in the Copa América: Promoting Inclusion

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In a significant gesture towards inclusion, the captains of all 16 teams competing in Copa América, held in the United States, will wear the captain's armband with the message "Choose to Include."

Dorothy Okatch

Dorothy Okatch, Basketball Official, World Games Abu Dhabi 2019
Special Olympics Africa, Basketball Official, World Games Abu Dhabi 2019

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Heather Holland - SO Wisconsin, Health Messenger
Special Olympics Wisconsin
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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 Qatar FactSheet (PDF)
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