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.
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Our medal winning team to the Special Olympics World Games in Los Angeles has received a commendation from the Legislature.
The Football Federation of American Samoa's website has a story that starts this way: "I really enjoyed our soccer team and the Special Olympics games in LA,” exclaimed Hanipale Tovale, a member of the Special Olympics American Samoa unified soccer squad.
Efforts by the Special Olympic Amerika Samoa Board to send a team to the Special Olympics Invitational Summer Test games at the University of Southern California Los Angeles have been rewarded: CEO Mark Dunkerley and Hawaiian Airlines have donated 8 airline tickets for the local team.
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.
Sports Offered: