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.
9 OFFICIAL SPORTS: Aquatics Athletics Bocce Football (Soccer) Gymnastics (Rhythmic) Hockey Open Water Swimming Tennis Triathlon
Special Olympics Honduras athlete Javier Mejia won second place in the Olympic Triathlon and Sprint organized by the Honduran Federation of Triathlons , held in May.
The director of the Special Olympics Young Athletes Program in Costa Rica and "Champion" of this initiative for Latin America, Patricia Salazar, led the training for Special Olympics Young Athletes’ coaches in Honduras.
After Hurricane Mitch in Honduras, we were visited by Eunice Kennedy Shriver, in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.
On August 2 and 3, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, a seminar was held to contribute to the education of our coaches in the sport of swimming.
On Thursday, August 1, a day of solidarity was held in the facilities of the Technological University of Honduras in cooperation with Special Olympics Honduras, and it involved a group of volunteers, families and rhythmic gymnastics athletes.
Accompanied by the Director of Athlete Leadership, we provided training to 40 members convened in Guaimaca Family, Francisco Morazan on the topic: "The Importance of Participating in Special Olympics."
Tegucigalpa-- On June 23 Cargill, our Special Olympics Honduras sponsor decided to help the program by representing us in one of the most important events in Honduras, The International Marathon La Prensa.
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.
9 OFFICIAL SPORTS: Aquatics Athletics Bocce Football (Soccer) Gymnastics (Rhythmic) Hockey Open Water Swimming Tennis Triathlon