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.
12 OFFICIAL SPORTS: Aquatics Athletics Basketball Bocce Bowling Football (Soccer) Gymnastics (Rhythmic) Power Lifting Softball Table Tennis Tennis Volleyball
The athlete Maribel Caballero came to my academy to practice Artistic Gymnastics.
After my son Christian's traumatic brain injury at age 5, we could not have expected his unbelievable success as a Special Olympics soccer player.
As spectators streamed into a sports complex in San Juan, Puerto Rico, for the inaugural event of the 2014 Lions Clubs International USA/Canada Forum, it was clear that something unique was about to happen.
The Houston Food Bank got a flood of volunteers today from Special Olympics Programs around the world, plus several famous names from the NBA and WNBA.
Last Saturday, September 15, 2012 during the World Aquatics at San Juan Puerto Rico, the Clinical Director, Dr. Neysha Miranda with a team of 107 professionals (physiotherapists, assistant of physiotherapists, and students of physical therapy) screened more than 200 athletes in the FUNfitness clinic at the 1rst World Aquatics in San Juan Puerto Rico.
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.
12 OFFICIAL SPORTS: Aquatics Athletics Basketball Bocce Bowling Football (Soccer) Gymnastics (Rhythmic) Power Lifting Softball Table Tennis Tennis Volleyball