Video: Special Olympics 2011. People with endless possibilities
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Special Olympics - an international movement that every four years proves to the whole world: people with mental disabilities are worthy athletes, able to fight their disease and overcome it. Recently in Athens passed 22nd Summer Special Olympics, which brought together 7,500 athletes from almost all countries of the world. We will tell you about this grand rally and competition.
History Special Olympics began in 1968 thanks to the sister of the then President of the United States, Eunice Kennedy Shriver. This warm-hearted woman headed the Joseph Patrick Kennedy Foundation; the main goal of the foundation was to find a way to combat mental illness and adapt people affected by them to society.
Special Olympics Opening - a very solemn ceremony. And that's great. Thanks to the atmosphere of great sport, pomp and exceptional attention, which the organizers surround the athletes, the participants feel themselves demanded and worthy members of society - which they are.
Special Olympics, like regular Olympics, are held every four years. June 25 to July 4 in the Greek capital, representatives of more than 180 countries competed (and there are 193 of them, including South Sudan) to show everyone: they definitely cannot be called people with disabilities! There is no official sport where Special Olympics participants have not shown themselves. And this despite the fact that even getting to the place of the games is a problem for them - and even on the field of competition they give all their best.
Scoring system for Special Olympics - not at all the same as on the usual one. There is absolutely no element of competition between countries: such statistics are even unethical to publish. This is because it is not a victory over an opponent that is valuable here, but a victory over oneself, the growth of personal results is a good old Olympic ideal … We can only say that at the last Games Russian athletes took 196 medals, 140 of them were gold.
The next Special Olympics (already in winter) will take place in 2013. The venue will be the city of Pyeongchang in South Korea.
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