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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Urs Lehmann, Swiss-Ski president, signed a convention with Special Olympics Switzerland which shall promote inclusive sports and training offerings within the Swiss-Ski association.
Special Olympics Switzerland organized a fun Inclusion Painting project to create awareness for the Team Switzerland attending the World Winter Games in Austria 2017.
Special Olympics and the United Nations are working on a plan to address the needs of refugees with intellectual disabilities.
Special Olympics Switzerland has just closed their 2016 National Winter Games in the Rhine Valley city of Chur.
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: