Special Olympics
Special Olympics is the world's largest sports organization for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. It provides year-round training and competitions to more than 4.4 million athletes in 193 countries. Special Olympics competitions are held every day, all around the world. This includes local, national and regional competitions. Combined they add up to more than 70,000 events a year.
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| Location | 1133 19th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., U.S. 20036 |
| Official languages | English and the host country's official language when necessary |
| Key people | Timothy Shriver (Chairman of the Board) Mary Davis (Chief Executive Officer) William P. Alford (Lead Director & Vice Chair) Angelo Moratti (Vice Chair) Loretta Claiborne (Vice Chair) Michelle Kwan (Treasurer)[1] |
These competitions include the Special Olympics World Games. These alternate between summer and winter games. Special Olympics World Games are held every four years. The most recent World Summer Games were the Special Olympics World Summer Games, held in Athens, Greece (The birthplace of the modern Olympic Games). They ran from June 25, 2011 to July 4, 2011.[2] The next summer games will be held in Los Angeles beginning Saturday, July 25 and ending on August 2, 2015.[3] The Flame of Hope is the symbol of the Special Olympics.[4] It was lit on May 14, 2015 at the Pnyx in Athens, Greece. That began the journey to the World Games. The torch remains lit until the end of the Games on August, 2.
Next Specialolympics will be held in Canada in 2024 in winters
Special Olympics Media
- 2003 Special Olympics Opening Crowd.JPG
The crowd at the 2003 Special Olympics World Summer Games Opening Ceremonies in Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland
Special Olympics World Winter Games 2017 reception Vienna, Austria
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