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.
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This week, Uvurkhangai Province held its first ever Special Olympics games.
Unlike many athletes represented at 2015 Los Angeles World Games, very few attentions have been paid to those athletes from remote areas.
Peace Corps volunteer James Busacca of Valley Center, California, recently helped organize Mongolia’s inaugural Special Olympics National Competition for more than 150 children and adults with intellectual disabilities—14 of whom will represent Mongolia at the 2015 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Los Angeles.
Special Olympics Mongolia was founded in 2013, the latest addition to the Special Olympics family.
Last month, in the Mongolia Parliament House, history was made when Special Olympics Mongolia officially joined the Special Olympics family.
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: