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Graphic includes Inclusion Revolution Radio logo and a photo of Mack Hollins smiling with text that reads “Season #5 Episode 02 Mack Hollins Special Olympics Champion Ambassador.”
Community Impact

Special Olympics Champion Ambassador Mack Hollins Joins the Inclusion Revolution Radio Podcast

Inclusion Revolution Radio host Novie Craven welcomed Special Olympics Champion Ambassador Mack Hollins to the podcast for this week’s episode.
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Coach Edna stands with ten athletes dressed in weightlifting uniforms holding up a sign that says American Muscle Powerlifting, Long Island, Special Olympics, New York.
Community Impact

Coach Edna on Weightlifting Bar Basics

Coach Edna coaches the American Muscle powerlifting team that consists of three female athletes and six male ranging in age from 16 to 35.
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Hanna Faulhaber and Haldan Pranger stand on the medal podium posing outside with the medals in front of a snowy slope.
Athletes

Special Olympics and Pro Athletes Shredded for Inclusion at the X Games Aspen 2023

Learn about the Special Olympics Unified Skiing and Unified Snowboarding x Games Aspen 2023 results.
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Text reads “accessiBe in collaboration with Inclusion Revolution Radio” includes the accessiBe and Inclusion Revolution Radio logo. Text reads“Season #5 Episode 01, Regan Hofley, Special Olympics Canada” photo of Regan on the right side.
Community Impact

Inclusion Revolution Radio and AccessiBe Welcomes Special Olympics Athlete, Regan Hofley

Inclusion Revolution Radio podcast host, Novie Craven, and co-host, Josh Basile, from accessiBe have teamed up to release a podcast mini-series highlighting the Special Olympics World Games Berlin 2023.
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Daina Shilts and Mons Røisland raise their arms and snowboards in the air while standing on podiums outside in the snow.
Press Releases

Special Olympics Unified Skiing and Snowboarding Returns to X Games Aspen 2023

In 2023, Special Olympics Unified Snowboarding will return for its eighth year at X Games Aspen and Unified Skiing will return for the third year.
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Two young women in pink shirts on either side of another woman with their arms around one another.
In the News

Special Olympics Chief of Global Youth and Education Talks Inclusion with Authority Magazine

The following is an excerpt from the article titled Social Impact Heroes: Why & How Jacqueline Jodl Of Special Olympics Is Helping To Change Our World published by Authority.
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A Special Olympics athlete stands next to her coach for a photo.
Community Impact

Coach’s Three-Decade-Long Involvement with Special Olympics Leads to Outstanding Coach Nomination

Getting started with the movement 30 years ago after fostering a young man with intellectual disabilities, she has been a certified coach since 2006, with swimming being her favorite sport.
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17 people together smiling and posing for a group photo inside a gymnasium, surrounded by Badminton World Federation and Special Olympics banners and branding.
Community Impact

Badminton Experts Deliver Shuttle Time Program to Expand Sport in North America

Special Olympics volunteers and coaches get together to develop their badminton knowledge and expertise.
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a group of young people - both male and female - wearing basketball uniforms and playing basketball on a court. In the center, a young male athlete is jumping to the hoop with a basketball in his hands, attempting to score.
In the News

Special Olympics Back on the Court with first-ever European Unified Youth Basketball Tournament

Funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union and supported by Toyota Motors Europe, the tournament was organized by Special Olympics Italy in partnership with a local organising committee in Sansepolcro.
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Athletes

Leading through Action in Kenya: Boniface’s Story

A Special Olympics Kenya athlete shares his journey with Special Olympics and why he's so passionate about improving the lives of people of all abilities in his community.
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