Special Olympics is an international sports training and competition for more than 2.25 million mentally retarded children and adults.
Special Olympics slogan:
Let me win. But if I can't win, let me try bravely.
Our leader is: eunice? Kennedy? Ms Shriver (founder and honorary chairman), Timothy? Dr. shriver (Chairman), Bruce? Pasternak (President and CEO)
Our mission is:
Create conditions and opportunities for mentally retarded children and adults to participate in daily Olympic sports training and competitions, so that they can show their potential, show their courage, share their happiness, exchange their skills and enhance their friendship with other athletes, family members and the whole community.
Our goal is to give people with intellectual disabilities the opportunity to become useful, recognized and respected citizens.
Benefits: By participating in the Special Olympics, mentally handicapped people can enhance their physical function, sports skills, self-esteem and self-confidence, cultivate friendship and get the support of their families. Special Olympics athletes bring these benefits into their daily life, work, study and community activities. Family members can become closer, community volunteers can become good friends with athletes, and everyone can see the value of mentally retarded people.
The spirit of Special Olympics is skills, courage, sharing and happiness that transcend national, political, gender, age, racial and religious boundaries.
Special Olympics established: 1968, eunice? Kennedy? Ms Shriver held the first special olympics international in Soldier's Square in Chicago, Illinois, USA. 1960 At the beginning of the year, Ms. shriver held a summer camp for the mentally retarded, from which she came up with the idea of organizing a sports meeting, because she saw that the ability of the mentally retarded in sports and physical activities far exceeded the imagination of many experts. Since 1968, millions of mentally retarded children and adults have participated in the Special Olympics.
Worldwide: More than 160 countries have established Special Olympics organizations. Special Olympics activities are being held all over the world.
In the United States: All 50 states, including Washington, D.C., Guam, Virgin Islands and American Samoa, have established Special Olympics organizations. Nearly 25,000 communities carry out Special Olympics activities.
In 1 1 big cities, special Olympics school training and competition activities are carried out in communities, families and groups through the implementation of special Olympics demonstration schools, special Olympics sports training courses in public schools and extracurricular sports competitions for students with mental retardation in grade one and grade two.
Qualifications: Athletes participating in the Special Olympics must be at least eight years old and meet one of the following conditions recognized by relevant institutions and professionals: mental disability; Under the standard scale, recognized cognitive ability is slow; People who have major defects in their study and life due to cognitive retardation and need special guidance.
Integration exercise: according to age and physical quality, mentally retarded people and ordinary healthy people are put on the same team for training and competition. This activity was established in 1987, aiming at integrating people with mental retardation into normal people in school and community sports activities.
Special Olympics provides year-round training: 25 official competitions. These sports were founded and tested by the Special Olympics, and each event was described in detail in the sports guide. More than 65,438+040,000 coaches have training qualifications.
Athletes' grouping: According to their age and ability, the Special Olympics will give every athlete an equal chance to win, and every athlete should be selected from regional, national and world Special Olympics.
Severely disabled athletes: Special Olympics organized physical trainers, physiotherapists and psychotherapists to create a set of activity training programs. MATP (functional training plan) thinks that the focus is on training and participation, not competition. MATP is a member of the Special Olympics organization, which provides physical training for all mentally retarded people.
Special Olympics: Same as the Olympic Games. More than 20,000 summer or winter competitions and round robin competitions are held around the world every year. The International Special Olympic Games is held every two years, alternating between summer and winter, and representatives from various organizations are selected to participate.
More than 750,000 volunteers: organize regional special Olympics activities and serve as coaches, managers and drivers of regional special Olympics. Anyone can become a coach, manager and volunteer by participating in the Special Olympics, and serve the Special Olympics better through systematic training and study.
Washington headquarters: Special Olympics guides the activities of Special Olympics in the mainland, regions, states and countries around the world. The volunteer committee that formulated the plan consists of business and sports leaders, professional athletes and training experts in the field of mental retardation.
Give cooperation and support: Special Olympics is the organization that manages the activities of Special Olympics in various countries and the world sports federation. Special Olympics is the authoritative organization that manages and guides the activities of the World Special Olympics.
Special Olympics is the only organization authorized by the International Olympic Committee to use the "Olympic" symbol in the world.
The meaning of the emblem of the 2007 Special Olympics
Logo: "eyes"
Creativity: The shape is an eye, and the figure in the eye is not only the shape of two jumping athletes, but also the blooming figure of Shanghai Magnolia. This design breaks through the traditional form of expressing semantics through letter deformation, and expresses an infectious meaning through freehand brushwork and law-abiding.
Meaning: The first meaning is a kind of hopeful eyes: when those mentally retarded lives come into this world, grow up and go to the society, they hope for the kind eyes of their mothers, the eyes of those who encourage and help them when they encounter setbacks and difficulties, and the eyes of "equality, acceptance and tolerance" of the whole society;
The second meaning is a caring look: as everyone living in this society, we should give the mentally retarded the greatest care, care and love, and have the responsibility to treat them equally and help encourage them to integrate into society.
Yes Giving them a little caring eyes will become a great driving force to support their self-confidence and self-improvement in life;
The third meaning is concerned eyes: China and Shanghai will host the 2007 World Special Olympics, which is a grand gathering for people with intellectual disabilities all over the world and also a grand gathering to show human civilization. The whole world will focus on Shanghai, the lofty cause of Special Olympics, the 2007 Special Olympics and China, which is moving towards a civilized society with the connotation of "humanity, humanism and humanity"!