Mar
14
2017
The Special Olympics winter games 2017 in Graz, Schladming and Ramsau are due to start on Tuesday, with the arrival of around 2,700 athletes.
The Special Olympics for the mentally impaired have been taking place for 55 years, based on an initiative by the Kennedys in 1962. The movement organises around 100,000 events in 170 countries every year.
The Special Olympics Austria organisation was founded in 1993, and is the organiser for the winter Olympics this year.
At the first games, around 1,000 athletes from the US and Canada took part. Today, the organisation reaches around 4.2 million mentally-impaired people worldwide.
From: APA News Bulletin
(Embacuba Austria)
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