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Special Olympics offers training and competition opportunities in 30 Olympic-type sports for athletes 8 years or older.  For children with intellectual disabilities ages 2 through 7, Special Olympics provides a Young Athletes Program. Special Olympics coaches have a unique opportunity to work with athletes in competitive situations to assist in their training for life. As a grass-roots organization, Special Olympics relies on volunteers at all levels of the movement to ensure that every athlete is offered a quality sports training and competition experience. Individual donors, corporate partners and many others make it possible for Special Olympics to offer children and adults with intellectual disabilities the opportunity to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage and experience joy through participation in the program.
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The Special Olympics Web site offers a Search function to help you locate the information you need quickly and easily. Search is located at the top right of every page on the site. Just enter a word or phrase (placing quotation marks before and after the word or phrase, e.g. "Healthy Athletes") in the white text box and press "Enter" or click on the circular yellow button to the right of the box.

Choosing Search Terms

For best results, it's important to choose your search terms wisely. Keep these tips in mind:

  • Try the obvious first. If you're looking for information on athlete eligibility, enter "athlete eligibility" rather than just "athletes."
  • Make search terms as specific as possible. "2005 Special Olympics World Winter Games" will get you to the information you need much quicker than "World Games."

Other Helpful Hints

Enclosing your word or phrase in quotation marks (e.g., "basketball" or "Law Enforcement Torch Run") will improve the efficiency of the search.

Internet searching is almost always based on the principles of Boolean logic. Boolean logic refers to the logical relationship among search terms, and is consists of three logical operators: OR, AND and NOT. The site offers support for Boolean AND search (using the ampersand symbol "&" not the word "and") between two keywords (you can only use the "&" once). An example of a valid Boolean AND search would be:
      "law enforcement" & "torch run"

Implied Boolean logic refers to a search in which symbols are used to represent Boolean logical operators. In this type of search, the absence of a symbol is also significant, as the space between keywords defaults to OR logic. Note that by default, an OR search will be performed if you separate keywords with a space in between them.

Searches are not case sensitive. All letters, regardless of how you type them, will be understood as lowercase. For example, searches for "timothy shriver," "Timothy Shriver" and "tImOtHy ShRiVeR" will all return the same results.

 
 

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