At the Special Olympics everyone counts, and everyone is a winner, just for trying.
Gareth Cowin, 25, died in PyeongChang whilst representing the island at the Special Olympics World Winter Games.
The search has begun for 500 volunteers to help the Special Olympics GB's ninth national games run smoothly.
His sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of the Special Olympics, died August 11.
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She founded the Special Olympics in 1968, in part because of her experience with her mentally handicapped sister, Rosemary.
The Special Olympics World Winter Games in South Korea have been renamed in honour of Manx Olympian Gareth Cowin.
Up until the turn of the millennium, he merely dabbled in philanthropic activities, from Covenant House to the Special Olympics.
In short, Eunice came into her own with the Special Olympics.
The Special Olympics stand as a wonderful example of this inclusiveness.
"We decided, let's make a global sports marketplace, a one-stop resource, " says president ant co-founder Jill Osur, a former senior vice president with the Special Olympics.
Dr. Paul Berman is being honored as a Champion of Change for founding the Special Olympics Lions Clubs International Opening Eyes, an initiative providing vision care for challenged individuals.
And you are Dan Royce, a basketball player here who worked multiple jobs to pay for your education and still found time here and there to volunteer with the Special Olympics.
Not only did Paterno like children, Thornburgh wrote, but made sure to participate in a Penn State dance marathon charity for children with cancer and was a supporter of the Special Olympics.
Over the course of this week, the U.S. Presidential Delegation has experienced the lasting power of the Special Olympics movement to promote awareness and appreciation of the human rights of those with disabilities.
An Irish businessman sent his private jet to Baghdad where it picked up eight Iraqi mentally handicapped athletes who wanted to take part in the Special Olympics, which open this week in Ireland.
It was this quality of populism that led Eunice to the core of her vision of the Special Olympics-that through sports not only do we help the mentally retarded, but they also help us.
"We are asking people not to go to the movie and hope to bring a consciousness to people about using derogatory words about this population, " said Peter Wheeler, a spokesman for the Special Olympics, according to Reuters.
Even before launching the Special Olympics in 1968, Shriver had established a reputation as an advocate for the disenfranchised and a trailblazer for the rights of the disabled through a variety of roles in the private and public sector.
Only somebody intently attuned to the lives of the parents and their suffering would have understood that the Special Olympics was not just a classical act of noblesse oblige, handing something down patronizingly to the suffering poor, but of self-help as well.
For instance, Ben Stevens had received seven hundred and fifteen thousand dollars over three years from the Special Olympics, as the chief executive of the 2001 Winter Games in Anchorage, for which his father had brought millions of dollars in federal aid.
Leicester hosts the oldest comedy festival in Europe and held the GB Special Olympics in 2009.
With the connections I made myself as an FFA member, I brought together businesses and civic organizations in my state, including the Coca Cola Bottlers Association, the Illinois Special Olympics, and numerous local groups and organizations.
On Sunday, the NBA Cares Special Olympics Unified Game was held on the center court of NBA Jam Session.
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But the U.S. public is missing out on what truly makes the Olympics special.
On March 19th and 20th, NCMEC is sponsoring a conference called Safe to Compete: Protecting Child Athletes from Sexual Abuse, where it will convene more than 50 youth-serving organizations, including the YMCA, Special Olympics, USA Swimming, USA Gymnastics, and Big Brothers Big Sisters of America to talk about the issue of preventing abuse of children in sports programs.
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Her vision expanded over the years, and in July 1968 the first International Special Olympics Games were held in Chicago.
During her tenure with the NBC affiliate, she covered the 1996 Olympics, which included special reporting on the Centennial Olympic Park bombing.
It is the best performance since July 2010, but NIESR attributed it to special events, including the Olympics.
Through Special Olympics Lions Clubs International Opening Eyes, providing eye screenings to Special Olympics athletes, and the Lions Lens, a low-cost solution to the need for prescription eyeglasses, Lions are improving the quality of life for people around the world.
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