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.
33 OFFICIAL SPORTS: Alpine Skiing Aquatics Athletics Basketball Bocce Bowling Cross Country Skiing Cycling Equestrian Figure Skating Floor Hockey Floorball Football (Soccer) Golf Gymnastics (Artistic) Gymnastics (Rhythmic) Handball Judo Kayaking Open Water Swimming Power Lifting Roller Skating Sailing Short Track Speed Skating Snowboarding Snowshoeing Softball Table Tennis Tennis Volleyball
The future is bright for Special Olympics Russia with plans underway to roll-out Unified Sports to 10,000 schools.
To get us all in the ultimate Christmas mood, Special Olympics Russia team created a great video which they filmed during a photo session they organized for some of their athletes who will attend World Winter Games 2017 in Austria this March.
A dessert called "Olympia" will appear in Moscow restaurants in honor of Special Olympics in December, the most festive month of the year.
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.
33 OFFICIAL SPORTS: Alpine Skiing Aquatics Athletics Basketball Bocce Bowling Cross Country Skiing Cycling Equestrian Figure Skating Floor Hockey Floorball Football (Soccer) Golf Gymnastics (Artistic) Gymnastics (Rhythmic) Handball Judo Kayaking Open Water Swimming Power Lifting Roller Skating Sailing Short Track Speed Skating Snowboarding Snowshoeing Softball Table Tennis Tennis Volleyball