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Innovative Sports Partnership Creating Thousands of New Special Olympics Golfers

Man putting on a green in Berlin
In 2023, Topgolf and Special Olympics joined forces in a new global partnership with one driving ambition – to get more Special Olympics golfers playing the game.
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Liftoff: To Inclusion and Beyond

By RJ Nealon, July 11, 2024
National Leadership Event Group Photo - a large group of people with and without intellectual disabilities pose for a photo outside on grass.
It’s the quiet time of year on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, but the presence of Special Olympics makes it lively. Special Olympics youth leaders, educators and Program staff lived on campus during the 2024 SONA National Leadership Event: To Inclusion and Beyond.
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Two by Two, AALE Pairs Will Be Everywhere at the USA Games

Four people talk to each other and walk on the sidewalk toward the camera
An Innovative Way for Athlete Leaders to Learn Debuts Today
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The Beautiful Game Kicks Off: Paris hosts the Special Olympics Unified Football World Cup 2026

By Karini Viranna , July 03, 2026
Female footballers waiving, text on the image reads: Inspiration is Contagious
The footballs are packed. The boots are laced. From training grounds across the world, 324 footballers from 23 nations will gather at the Charléty Stadium in the ‘City of Light’ between 6-11 July to compete for the coveted title.
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Generous Gift Funds Nation’s First Institute to Teach Nurses to Care for People with Developmental Disabilities

Golisano Institute, Fisher College, an athlete, and Special Olympics representatives pose for a group photo.
Tom Golisano, founder of the Golisano Foundation, is a long-time supporter of Special Olympics and its mission to creating inclusive health for people with intellectual disabilities.
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‘Life is Easier When You Have a Team’: Special Olympics Brazil Unified Champion School Recognition Presentation

Students and teachers cheering in the bleachers. All have on Unified Champion Schools t-shirts.
ESPN honored four schools participating in the “Play Unified. Learn Unified.” project supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. These schools were recognized for their commitment to high standards of inclusion through the Unified Champion School model.
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Flagship European Football Week event kicks off in Tilburg, the Netherlands

By Jeroen Adriaanse , May 24, 2019
Female football/soccer player kicks the ball towards two male players on a football pitch.
Football fields all across Europe are coming alive with activity this summer, as women and girls with and without intellectual disabilities claim their rightful place on the pitch.
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Unified Beach Games: a New Vision of Victory

A man and three women wearing wet suits and swim hats and goggles on their heads, hold hands and smile as they walk out of the sea together with water splashing around their legs.
The Open Water Swimming competition at the recent Special Olympics Italia Beach Games in Cesenatico offered a truly inspiring vision of what victory really means.
Community Impact

Lize inspires FOX Sports Netherlands team

Lize sitting behind the FOX sports news desk with her hands on her hips and smiling.
It’s not every day at work that you hear from a gold-medallist who commands crowds of 64,000 people—no wonder the staff of FOX Sports Netherlands were so inspired by Special Olympics Netherlands Athlete Leader, Lize Weerdenburg!
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Chris Nikic Shatters Stereotypes to Become First Person with Down Syndrome to Complete an IRONMAN

Chris Nikic and Dan Grieb cross the finish line at IRONMAN Florida in Panama City.
Sixteen hours and 46 minutes later, as the nighttime darkness settled in, Chris crossed the finish line and made history of as the first person with Down syndrome to finish a full IRONMAN race.
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