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Unified Sports

Unified Sports
Unified Sports was inspired by a simple principle: training together and playing together is a quick path to friendship and understanding for athletes with and without intellectual disabilities.
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Kester Edwards

Kester Edwards on the beach speaking in interview wearing a red Special Olympics t-shirt.
At the age of seven, Kester Edwards was run over by a bicycle that put him in a coma for weeks and changed his life forever. For years Kester was taunted and bullied for having an intellectual disability, but he found joy and purpose through sports with Special Olympics Trinidad and Tobago.
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Loretta Claiborne

Loretta Claiborne holding her gold medals in front of the American flag.
Loretta Claiborne went from being non-verbal to becoming the voice of the Special Olympics movement.
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Living Unified

Zack shooting the basketball at the last second of the game with teammates watching.
Kellis High School is one of many Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools that are transforming the lives of students with and without intellectual disabilities through whole school inclusive programming.
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Game Changer: A Very Special Christmas

A Very Special Christmas sponsors and singers in a group wearing Santa hats.
For more than 30 years, the biggest names in music, artists like U2, Run-D.M.C., and Madonna have contributed to the “A Very Special Christmas” album series, the most successful benefit recording in history.
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Game Changers: Puerto Rico

Group of Special Olympians and representatives from Puerto Rico are in a room cheering and sitting in a group.
In September 2017, Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico and left many without homes, electricity, or the means to survive. SO Puerto staff, athletes, and families of Special Olympics Puerto Rico came together to support one another as the island slowly recovered from the damage.
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Inclusive Workplace

Peter Mullin (works for the Washington Wizards) at the game in a red shirt that reads: Wizards Power Pack. He's dancing and smiling.
Through the Best Buddies Jobs program, Peter Mullin is changing the game for inclusion at his job with the Washington Wizards.
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Rajah Diouri Sy

Rajah Diouri Sy looking at the interviewer (that is off camera/photo) and telling her story.
Rajah, volunteer National Director of Special Olympics Senegal, partners with her community to open up opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities.
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Ken Melvin

Ken Melvin in is US Army camouflage uniform sitting for his photo in front of the american flag.
Before Ken Melvin found Special Olympics, he was on a path that led to nowhere.
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Parents with a Megaphone

Young athlete with his mother sitting outside on a porch.
The Inclusion Revolution takes all of us, and sometimes it’s parents who are leading the charge.
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