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.
11 OFFICIAL SPORTS:
Lithuanian skier and runner Rūta Tuskenytė has an impressive World Games resume -- having competed in 5 World Games now.
Lithuania is the small country of 3 million on the Baltic coast, but the nation has a record 28 participants at the Special Olympics Winter Games in Austria.
Europe has been football crazy this month with the Euros happening in France. But at the same time in Lithuania, a European football tournament has been taking place with the same amount of thrills but perhaps not as much media attention!
This year Special Olympics Lithuania counts its 25th anniversary.
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.
11 OFFICIAL SPORTS: