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.
16 OFFICIAL SPORTS: Alpine Skiing Aquatics Athletics Badminton Basketball Bocce Bowling Cross Country Skiing Floor Hockey Floorball Football (Soccer) Gymnastics (Rhythmic) Judo Power Lifting Table Tennis Volleyball
Roman Soltys’ life is all about love. Family love, huge vitality and his own love story. Roman was diagnosed with Down syndrome.
Since Young Athletes began in Ukraine in 2012 it has been expanding to more and more new cities.
The Ukranian city of Lviv recently played host to the third Special Olympics Open Games 2016 – the largest event of its kind to be staged in the country.
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.
16 OFFICIAL SPORTS: Alpine Skiing Aquatics Athletics Badminton Basketball Bocce Bowling Cross Country Skiing Floor Hockey Floorball Football (Soccer) Gymnastics (Rhythmic) Judo Power Lifting Table Tennis Volleyball