Special Olympics
Speech parts
1. Special Olympics - Noun
2. Special Olympics - Proper noun
Meaning
an athletic contest modeled after the Olympic Games but intended for mentally or physically handicapped persons
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Again in 2017, it paid ₹10 lakh to one Balu Pandian who won the silver in floor hockey in Special Olympics World Winter Games held in South Korea in 2013.
CLEMSON — For the first time in 36 years, there will be no Area 13 Special Olympics Spring Games.
A recent study of Special Olympics Unified Sports in Serbia, Poland, Ukraine, Germany and Hungary documented the program's benefits, including the effect of changing attitudes toward people with intellectual disabilities.
Competitions are structured so that athletes compete with other athletes of similar ability in equitable divisions. citation An athlete's ability is the primary factor in divisioning Special Olympics competitions.
And not everyone who does write a book is deserving of praise, as if the literary community is one big Special Olympics.
At the July 1968 games, Shriver announced the formation of Special Olympics and that more games would be held every two years as a "Biennial International Special Olympics."