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Cyclist Niall Guite has produced drawings of each of the tournament’s six iconic venues

An Olympic rowing medallist will be poolside supporting her big sister at this week's Special Olympics Summer Games, where there's a big push to get more female athletes competing, Merryn Anderson reports. 

Holley’s mission is to bring awareness to all disabilities with the message, “Our Ability is STRONGER than our dis-Ability.”

The Special Olympics National Games are back in Tasmania for the first time in more than three decades and it's a special time for locals and athletes alike.

Over 60 categories of sports events organised

Heidi Jay is one of several swimmers excited to resume training for the first time in three years in preparation for the Special Olympics state competition in Sydney in August.

ORLANDO, Fla. — The Osceola County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the disappearance of several members of the Haitian Special Olympics soccer team participating in this year’s USA Games.

The pettiest bitch in politics has set his sights on the Special Olympics and America's national pastime.

But he’s also working with Special Olympics ahead of a potential showdown in Cardiff in September.

On May 20, for the first time, the Law Enforcement Torch Run Final Leg for the Special Olympics USA Games will begin right here in Chicago with a celebratory Flame Lighting Ceremony. The “Flame of Hope” will be ignited from the eternal flame at Soldier Field, which is considered to…

In an era when parents often were urged to institutionalize children with Down syndrome, the Maestranzis ‘chose an alternative path, helping him essentially to live a life of his own choosing,’ said Bob Okazaki, former head of Avenues to Independence.