In the News
In every corner of the earth, Special Olympics is changing the lives of people with intellectual disabilities. These news stories come from all around the world.
Hollywood Movie Starring Athlete Is a Critical Success
“The Peanut Butter Falcon” opens to wide release across the U.S. this weekend. The executive producer team includes Special Olympics Chairman Dr. Timothy Shriver.
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Why We Need to Maintain a Strong Federal Commitment to Special Olympics By U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.)
“Athletes of determination” was the perfect theme for the 2019 Special Olympics World Games that took place in Abu Dhabi in March.
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Sidelined and Stigmatized: How Special Olympics Kenya is helping parents of children with intellectual disabilities
"Among one hundred women, only one woman will accept to take care of a child that is not hers and has intellectual disabilities..."
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Golisano Foundation support helps expand health programming in Kenya
Ann Costello, Executive Director of the Foundation Visits Kenya for the first time and meets with athletes and teachers
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Gothia Special Olympics Trophy: Results
30 teams. 15 nations. Six groups. After 72 matches over four days, by the time the Gothia Special Olympics Trophy finals took place, every player on the pitch was deserving of triumph!
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SHAPE America and Special Olympics sign Memorandum of Understanding to Formalize Longstanding Partnership
In Sioux Falls, South Dakota on 31 July 2019 SHAPE America (Society of Health and Physical Educators) and Special Olympics have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to formalize a partnership that has been in effect for over 50 years.
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Integration in Action: Gothia Special Olympics Trophy
For one week every year, Gothenburg, Sweden is consumed by football fever as the Gothia Cup takes hold of the city—and the Gothia Special Olympics Trophy is right at the heart of it!
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‘Mission: Inclusion’ in action in Milan
In early July 2019, Lions Clubs International Foundation—one of Special Olympics largest and most long-standing global partners—offered athletes the opportunity to share our joint message of inclusion at the 102nd Lions Clubs International Convention in Milan.
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A special role for ‘Play Unified. Learn Unified.’ at SNFestival
Special Olympics athletes were honoured to play an important role in the recent Summer Nostos Festival (SNFestival)—a multifaceted international arts, sports and education festival organised every June by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation in Athens, Greece.
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Special Olympics Russia Welcomes a New President
Olga Slutsker has been elected as the new President of Special Olympics Russia at a recent Extraordinary Conference in Moscow.
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Texas A&M University to Open 4-year Residential College Program for Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Texas A&M University will open Aggie ACHIEVE program this fall where young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Aggie ACHIEVE is an inclusive, certificate-based, four-year education program.
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