In honor of Mother’s Day this weekend, it’s fitting to take a look at the woman who founded the Special Olympics in 1968. A long-time advocate for better schools, programs, and acceptance for the mentally-challenged, Shriver started Camp Shriver, a camp for mentally-disabled children, at her family’s Maryland estate in 1962. She taught the campers […]
(16 January 2008 – Boise, Idaho) — The 2009 Special Olympics World Winter Games Organizing Committee (GOC) is pleased to announce that Sun Valley Resort, the home to one of America’s premier ski resorts, will host two sports for the 2009 Games, as well as for its prelude, the 2008 Invitational Winter Games in February.
Sun […]
The 6th annual Special Olympics European Football Week [UEFA sponsored] will be held on 24 April to 3 May, 2006. It is approximately around 50,000 players with intellectual disabilities will be participating in football events across 50 countries in Europe | Eurasia.
This is aimed to create awareness on the abilities of athletes with intellectual disabilities […]
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