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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The committee is made up of inclusive youth pairs from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus, Great Britain and Serbia.
Meg Mcfarlane, aged 13 years from Nottingham, Great Britain, competed at the Ladies Figure Skating at the World Games in Austria.
Special Olympics Great Britain and Special Olympics Ireland alpine skiing athletes flew to Schladming, Austria for an intensive five-day training.
Six Special Olympics Great Britain athletes had an amazing opportunity to attend the Jr.NBA training clinic at the 02 Arena thanks to our global partnership with NBA and their NBA Cares Programme.
Special Olympics Great Britain ice skater Stephanie Gott, who is heading to the World Winter Games 2017 in Austria, has received a surprise meet and greet with her ice idols Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean when she attended a January 3rd performance of Cinderella at the Hippodrome in Bristol representing Team Great Britain.
The campaign is led by Special Olympics Great Britain and delivered in partnership with the Youth Sport Trust – jointly funded and administered by DCMS and Sport England. It aims to change attitudes towards and perceptions of young people with intellectual disabilities through sport, working on the principle that playing and training together will create friendships and understanding between those with and without intellectual disabilities. The ultimate goal is to create a ‘unified generation’.
This special interview at ITV Good Morning Britain was held in order to raise awareness about the upcoming National Games in Sheffield this summer, which are planned to be one of the biggest kind of such events hosted in the United Kingdom.
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: