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The flag raising on Tuesday highlighted the organization’s mission to promote inclusion for individuals with Intellectual and ...
The logo of the Special Olympics World Games Berlin 2023 expresses what athletes and visitors can expect at the event for people with intellectual and multiple disabilities due to take place in ...
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — The countdown is on to the Special Olympics USA Games, which take place in Minnesota June 20-26, 2026. An estimated 4,000 athletes from 50 states will compete in 19 sports ...
A local Special Olympics athlete is using his passion for pottery to help others. Tommy Mooney creates custom coffee mugs at the Broken Mold Pottery Studio and sells them to raise money for his peers.
Started by Eunice Kennedy Shriver in 1968, the Special Olympics this year will include 7,000 athletes competing in 25 different athletic events. sel logo Newsletters ...
F resh off the success of the 2025 World Winter Games in March in Turin, Italy, Special Olympics has announced their new big international event — a first-ever Unified 3x3 Basketball World Cup ...
At the Palo Alto Unified Special Olympics track and field event on Friday, May 19, special education students from 15 schools came together to run, long jump and throw.
The special in Special Olympics shouldn’t be used to describe the disabilities of the competitors. That comes off as patronizing. It should apply to how they compete, though.
Niall Guite, from Sheffield, is one Special Olympian who has spent the past few years smashing down walls. During the Covid-19 pandemic, when it became impossible to play sport, he started to draw it.
Special Olympics sports event unites South Side grade school kids ‘without the labels of who’s who’ Each wearing a light blue shirt that read “Superhero,” about 400 grade schoolers ...
Unified 3x3 basketball was first played in 2017, with the rules officially codified in 2020 in the Special Olympics Sports Rules. It was first included in the Special Olympics World Summer Games ...