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Happy Valentine’s Day from Matthew and Crystal

Valentine’s Day is a day meant to share with your significant other how much they mean to you, the difference it makes having them in your life, and most importantly how much you love each other.
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Khadija Sy

Khadija is a role model, health volunteer and public speaker from Senegal. She’s also a Special Olympics athlete who has competed in both the 2011 World Games in Athens and the 2015 World Games in Los Angeles.

Innovative Video Production to Create a More Interactive World Games Experience.

Special Olympics has partnered with, CreatorUp to create video content to support the “Meet the Determined” campaign to promote the 2019 World Games in Abu Dhabi.
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Meece and Klug take 4th Gold at X Games 2019

Special Olympics Unified Sports® pair Henry Meece and Chris Klug took home gold for a 4th time at Special Olympics Unified Snowboarding at X Games Aspen 2019.
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Unified Snowboarding Action Coming to Aspen

Special Olympics Unified Snowboarding is returning to X Games Aspen for a fifth straight year!
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Kevin Brown Joins the Law Enforcement Torch Run’s International Executive Council

My name is Kevin Brown, and I am a Special Olympics athlete from New York. I work for the FBI, and I was recently chosen to serve on the LETR International Executive Council.
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Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle with Special Olympics Slovenia

Special Olympics Slovenia is currently in its second year of a three-year Healthy Communities Project, within which one of the main focuses is healthy lifestyle promotion.
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Special Olympics YA Lets Play Together

Special Olympics Young Athletes program is an inclusive and welcoming learning environment for children with and without intellectual disabilities from ages 2 to 7 years old.

Special Olympics Athlete Out to Shatter Stereotypes

Mariam Adel Azzab, the 32-year-old was born in a challenging time for a child with Down Syndrome, it was a time of exclusion, judgment and negative perceptions.
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Young Athletes: Inviting Youth of all Abilities to Play Together

Special Olympics Young Athletes program is an inclusive and welcoming learning environment for children with and without intellectual disabilities from ages 2 to 7 years old.
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