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The Special Olympics Sweden Invitational Games 2026 will be officially opened in Folkets Park, Malmö, marking the largest sporting event ever held in Sweden for people with intellectual disabilities.

Nikilani Rojas of Special Olympics Hawaii is someone who makes things happen by leading others and following through.

An intensive training program focused on leadership, inclusion, and personal development awaited members of the Special Olympics Middle East/North Africa Regional Athlete Leadership Council.

At a book fair in Guatemala City in mid-2024, Athlete Leader Daniel Guerra was doing what he does well, telling the story of people with intellectual disabilities and the barriers they face.

She had a keynote speech to give. She was in an unfamiliar city for just a few hours. Bright spotlights shined upon her. In a grand meeting room, 350 leaders from across Europe faced her.

XiaoBai had an hours-long journey tolast year’s training in Beijing, simply because the city is so big. The 2025 training voyage was longer still.

Members of the new Asia Pacific Regional Athlete Leadership Council had several days of onboarding training in July 2025.

When the Special Olympics Namibia Board of Directors needed to send a delegate to a major regional conference, they chose Athlete Leader Felicity Van der Heever.

Collaboration aims to expand resources that empower medical fitness facilities and professionals to better serve individuals with intellectual disabilities.

The world’s largest global celebration of sport and inclusion is coming to Chile, to drive a cultural transformation The first edition of the World Games to be held in Latin America in the 58-year history of Special Olympics

Millions of people with intellectual disabilities still face disparities and a lack of quality education, health, and access to sport experiences every day.

Staged under fluorescent lights, an orderly arrangement of turf courts hosts their competition: Special Olympics USA Games bocce athletes and Unified partners, athletes without intellectual disabilities. The courts are identical in nature, with their regulation ball sets, a measuring device, scoreboard and pallino, the target ball players aim to throw closest to in order to score. Only when the athletes enter its confines, does the court begin to change shape, each containing a story of unwavering focus, of overcoming.