Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
14 OFFICIAL SPORTS: Alpine Skiing Aquatics Athletics Badminton Baseball Basketball Bocce Floor Hockey Football (Soccer) Handball Judo Power Lifting Snowshoeing Table Tennis
Khaled ben Kacem spends almost all of his time with the Special Olympics athletes on the floor hockey team he coaches in Algeria.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
14 OFFICIAL SPORTS: Alpine Skiing Aquatics Athletics Badminton Baseball Basketball Bocce Floor Hockey Football (Soccer) Handball Judo Power Lifting Snowshoeing Table Tennis