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.
20 OFFICIAL SPORTS: Aquatics Athletics Basketball Bocce Bowling Cycling Figure Skating Floor Hockey Football (Soccer) Golf Gymnastics (Artistic) Gymnastics (Rhythmic) Open Water Swimming Power Lifting Roller Skating Short Track Speed Skating Softball Table Tennis Tennis Volleyball
Special Olympics has given me the opportunity to practice many sports along with my sister and other Special Olympics Mexico athletes,” said Andrik Benítez referring to the meaning of Special Olympics.
Today, at 12, Mildred in a leader athlete of the Special Olympics Mexico and participates in softball, cycling, track and swimming.
Luz Maria Escalona, mother of the athlete from Special Olympics Mexico, Pablo Escalona Ulises Lazarus, shared her story at the Teletón Center of Autism (CAT) in Mexico.
Football legends from the Pittsburgh Steelers paid tribute to 20 Special Olympics Mexico athletes.
As a tribute to all those parents who give unconditional love to their children and to our movement, launched a video to celebrate Father's Day on June. Maria Barbara "Bibi" Wetzel Aguilar, Special Olympics Mexico athlete...
More than 20 Special Olympics Mexico athletes traveled about 500 km from Puebla to Acapulco for a camp that changed their lives.
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.
20 OFFICIAL SPORTS: Aquatics Athletics Basketball Bocce Bowling Cycling Figure Skating Floor Hockey Football (Soccer) Golf Gymnastics (Artistic) Gymnastics (Rhythmic) Open Water Swimming Power Lifting Roller Skating Short Track Speed Skating Softball Table Tennis Tennis Volleyball