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The video reflects and documents the activities in and some feedback from the ten project countries during the 2010/2011 EU Youth Unified Sports Development project
This video is highlighting how Special Olympics Youth Unified Sports® is enabling young people with and without intellectual disabilities to train and compete on integrated sports teams
Euroleague Basketball partners with Special Olympics to promote participation in Basketball. They promote respect, acceptance and inclusion for athletes with intellectual disabilities.
Javier Zanetti stars in this video for 2011 European Football Week. This anual event is about the football community doing something to create opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities
This short and moving video introduces two Special Olympics Turkey Youth Unified footballers and has been titled by the star athlete and partner as “It’s important to achieve together.”
The Law Enforcement Torch Run took place from 6th to 18th September 2010 across 9 countries in Europe/Eurasia
Nicusor Carciumaru, 20, is a Special Olympics Footballer from Bucharest, Romania, and Gabriel Cracana, 21, a student from the Sports Academy. Through Unified Football, they became true friends.
The Flame Lighting Ceremony in Greece to mark the start of the European Law Enforcement Torch Run on September 6th 2010
Warsaw, Poland hosted the 2010 Special Olympics European Games. 1,400 athletes from across Europe and Central Asia came together to celebrate their abilities.
In the Summer of 2011 all eyes of the world we be on Athens as the country hosts the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games.
Mary Davis, Managing Director of Special Olympics Europe/Eurasia introduced the movement and explains the benefits of becoming a corporate partner, sponsor, volunteer or coach.
Ignored and misunderstood, people with intellectual disabilities are often strapped to cribs or beds, malnourished, sometimes caged and unthinkably abused.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver dedicated her life to improve the lives of people with intellectual disabilities and in doing so she created a world-wide movement committed to her vision.
Growing up in Ireland, Oliver Doherty has a passion for golf. And learning golf from his dad has strengthened the bond between father and son.
Left in a Russian orphanage as an infant, Svetlana’s joy of life shows through her knitting, cooking and dance skills, but competing as a gymnast is where she excels.
An entire country’s view of people with intellectual disabilities is changed when the World Games are held in Ireland in 2003. Told through the eyes of the Pierse family.
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