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Concluding its pilot run in 2006, The Special Olympics officially introduced Young Athletes, a sports program for children aged 2–7 with intellectual disabilities. It was designed to get the children exposed and interested in sports before they are eligible to compete in the Special Olympics.
Special Olympics is the world's largest sports organization for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, providing year-round training and activities to 5 million participants and Unified Sports partners in 172 countries. [2]
Special Olympics World Games take place every two years and alternate between Summer and Winter Games, a schedule similar to the Olympics and Paralympics. Attracting as many as 350,000 volunteers and coaches, plus several thousands of athletes, these World Games can be the world's largest sporting event of the year.
More than a decade ago, a teenager named Caitlin Upton became one of the world's first true viral sensations. This was 2007, a few years before "going viral" was a daily occurrence: There was ...
Special Olympics Dan Lurie: 2007 Body Building Deena Kastor: 2007 Marathon Running Dwight Stones: 2007 Track and Field George Kalinsky: 2007 Photography Harry Haft: 2007 Boxing Howard Cosell: 2007 Broadcasting Jerry Markbreit: 2007 Referee Football referee Lennie Rosenbluth: 2007 Basketball Mark Spitz: 2007 Swimming Mitchell Bobrow: 2007 Karate ...
Loretta Claiborne is an American global speaker and multi-sport athlete who competes in the Special Olympics. She has been honored with the 1996 Arthur Ashe ESPY Courage Award presented to her by Denzel Washington. Claiborne was the first Special Olympics athlete elected to the Special Olympics International Board of Directors. [1]
Biles captured her second gold medal of Rio Olympics, winning the women's all-around by a whopping 2.1 points in a sport that keeps score to the hundredth of a point. Not only was the performance ...
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.