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Providing year round sports training and athletic competition to more than
3.1 million people with intellectual disabilities in more than 180 countries

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"Every day, on dusty fields and grassy tracks across the region our athletes strive, overcoming
obstacles, trying, succeeding, and exceeding our expectations.
Reminding us of the can in every can’t, the ability in every disability."

Dr John Dow Jr.
Regional Managing Director

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NBA Great Sam Perkins launches Special Olympics


Sam Perkins, known as “Big Easy” was co-captain of the gold medal-winning 1984 U.S. Olympic basketball team, a member of the 1982 NCAA Champion North Carolina Tarheels, and a successful NBA player for 15 years. Now he's helping bring the game he loves


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Special Olympics Botswana makes headway


The Special Olympics movement has changed the perception about disabled people, a senior sports official has said. Ross Tebele the movement's director in Botswana says disabled people are now more accepted in society because of the special


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Special Olympics South Africa host FIFA Football for Hope Soccer Week


(Johannesburg, South Africa)  - From September 18-21, over 300 Special Olympics South Africa athletes will demonstrate their skillls in four days of soccer action as they particpate in the Special Olympics FIFA Football for Hope Soccer Week.  The 


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