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These games were the first Special Olympics World Summer Games held in the United States in 16 years since the 1999 Summer Games held in Raleigh, North Carolina. In 2017 Special Olympics World Winter Games in Graz and Schladming in Styria, Austria. This marked a return: Salzburg and Schladming, Austria hosted the fifth Special Olympics World ...
The 2014 Special Olympics USA Games were held from June 14 to 21 in New Jersey. [4] The Opening Ceremony was held at Prudential Center in Newark. [5] [6] Competition was held at venues throughout Mercer County including The College of New Jersey in the Trenton suburb of Ewing, [7] Rider University, Princeton University and Mercer County Park.
The Special Olympics World Games is a major event put on by the Special Olympics committee. The World Games generally alternate between summer and winter games, in two-year cycles, recurring every fourth year. The games were first held on July 20, 1968, in Chicago, Illinois, United States, with about 1,000 athletes from the U.S. and Canada.
Oct. 16—Close to 65 bowlers were all smiles Saturday morning as they cheered each other on at Lancer Lanes in Clarkston. Sandy Fromdahl, the Twin Rivers Special Olympics bowling coach, said it's ...
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Special Olympics National Summer Games in New Zealand [159] 1985: 2022: 4 New Zealand, Hamilton: Regional: Disabled: Special Olympics National Winter Games in New Zealand: 2005: 2023: 4 New Zealand, TBA: Regional: Disabled: Special Olympics USA: 2006: 2026: 4 United States, Minnesota: Regional: Disabled: Special Olympics Summer World Games ...
In those games, Garland (who spent the last two seasons at Big Bend Community College) went 8-for-17 at the plate with four doubles, scored 10 runs and drove in five more.
The following is a list of host cities of the Olympic Games, both summer and winter, since the modern Olympics began in 1896. Since then, summer and winter games have usually celebrated a four-year period known as an Olympiad. From the inaugural Winter Games in 1924 until 1992, winter and summer Games were held in the same year.