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.
10 OFFICIAL SPORTS: Alpine Skiing Aquatics Athletics Basketball Beach Volleyball Bocce Cross Country Skiing Football (Soccer) Table Tennis Volleyball
Youth leaders in Serbia overwhelming agreed that the first year of the USAID-supported “Play Unified” project has been a huge success.
In the run-up to the summer school break, students in Serbia were busy taking the lead in organizing 10 inclusive activities for their peers and their communities in 10 cities.
The International Schools Sports Federation (ISF) has taken the opportunity to promote inclusion in sport at the ISF World Schools Championship Volleyball 2016 competitions currently taking place in Belgrade, Serbia. Special Olympics teams from Serbia, Poland and Germany will take part in a Unified Volleyball match before the semi-final and final matches concluding July 2nd and 3rd.
Special Olympics Serbia, supported by USAID, held 10 workshops for inclusive Youth Activation Committees in April and May 2016.
Special Olympics athletes were among 200 top Serbian athletes honored on United Nations International Day of Sport for Development and Peace in Belgrade.
The committee is made up of inclusive youth pairs from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus, Great Britain and Serbia.
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.
10 OFFICIAL SPORTS: Alpine Skiing Aquatics Athletics Basketball Beach Volleyball Bocce Cross Country Skiing Football (Soccer) Table Tennis Volleyball