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.
24 OFFICIAL SPORTS:
When it comes to making Special Olympics a success, volunteers are the movement’s backbone with over 1.5 million worldwide.
Special Olympics Belgium recently debuted its very popular Play Unified campaigns, which challenge well-known athletes to join Special Olympics athletes for a unified game.
Special Olympics Belgium ended 2016 with yet another successful implementation of its Play Unified Campaigns.
Belgian tennis star Yanina Wickmayer was issued with a tennis showdown request by Special Olympics Belgium tennis player Lies Gielis as part of a campaign to raise awareness about the organisation’s Unified Sports program.
Sharing a pitch with some of Belgium’s top players ranks highly on the wish-list of many footballers.
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.
24 OFFICIAL SPORTS: