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.
15 OFFICIAL SPORTS: Aquatics Athletics Badminton Basketball Bocce Bowling Cycling Equestrian Floor Hockey Football (Soccer) Power Lifting Roller Skating Snowshoeing Table Tennis Tennis
Rim Abu Zahra of Jordan won a gold medal in roller skating at the 2015 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Los Angeles. Now she's trading roller skate for ice skates to compete in her first winter games.
Around 100 SO Jordan athletes gathered Saturday the 22nd of September 2012 to witness and or join a basketball games and remember one lady whose vision and strong beliefs made their existence more positive, healthy and gave them the opportunities to show their power in the sports field and in their own communities.
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.
15 OFFICIAL SPORTS: Aquatics Athletics Badminton Basketball Bocce Bowling Cycling Equestrian Floor Hockey Football (Soccer) Power Lifting Roller Skating Snowshoeing Table Tennis Tennis