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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: 

  • Alpine
  • Skiing
  • Aquatics
  • Athletics
  • Badminton
  • Basketball
  • Bocce
  • Bowling
  • Cricket
  • Cycling
  • Equestrian
  • Figure Skating
  • Floor Hockey
  • Floorball
  • Football (Soccer)
  • Golf
  • Gymnastics (Artistic)
  • Gymnastics (Rhythmic)
  • Judo
  • Kayaking
  • Netball
  • Power Lifting
  • Sailing
  • Table Tennis
  • Tennis
  • Volleyball
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Corinthian House, 1st Floor 6-8 Great Eastern Street London EC2 3NT, United Kingdom
+44 20 7247 2393
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Special Olympics Great Britain
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Newly elected inclusive committee 'hits the ground running'

The committee is made up of inclusive youth pairs from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus, Great Britain and Serbia. 

 

Posted 370 weeks ago

Giving Athletes a Framework For Life

Meg Mcfarlane, aged 13 years from Nottingham, Great Britain, competed at the Ladies Figure Skating at the World Games in Austria.

 

Posted 370 weeks ago

Team Great Britain and Ireland Snow Training Camps in Schladming

Special Olympics Great Britain and Special Olympics Ireland alpine skiing athletes flew to Schladming, Austria for an intensive five-day training.

 

Posted 370 weeks ago

Great Britain athletes attend Jr.NBA training clinic

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.

 

Posted 370 weeks ago

Great Britain Athlete Stephanie Gott Meets Her Ice Idols

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.

 

Posted 370 weeks ago

Play Unified Day - Monday 13th March 2017 - #PlayUnifiedDay

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’.

 

Posted 370 weeks ago

Actor Jim Carter Promotes Special Olympics on Good Morning Britain

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. 

 

Posted 370 weeks ago

About
Location
Corinthian House, 1st Floor 6-8 Great Eastern Street London EC2 3NT, United Kingdom
+44 20 7247 8891
+44 20 7247 2393
Website

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: 

  • Alpine
  • Skiing
  • Aquatics
  • Athletics
  • Badminton
  • Basketball
  • Bocce
  • Bowling
  • Cricket
  • Cycling
  • Equestrian
  • Figure Skating
  • Floor Hockey
  • Floorball
  • Football (Soccer)
  • Golf
  • Gymnastics (Artistic)
  • Gymnastics (Rhythmic)
  • Judo
  • Kayaking
  • Netball
  • Power Lifting
  • Sailing
  • Table Tennis
  • Tennis
  • Volleyball
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