Special Olympics World Games 2027: One Year to Santiago
Chile launched the 17th Special Olympics World Games in front of La Moneda Palace, locking in October 16 to 24, 2027, a slate of 23 sports, and the movement's first Games in Latin America.
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Santiago 2027 unveils 22-sport program for Latin America's first World Games
The host committee confirmed the slate at a press event in National Stadium Park, locking in fútbol, bocce, and open-water swimming alongside the core 19.
How Unified Sports is reshaping high school gyms
What started as a pilot in eight states is now in nearly 9,000 American schools — and the kids running it didn't ask permission.
Healthy Athletes screened 1.2 million people last year — what it found
The largest public-health dataset on adults with intellectual disabilities keeps surfacing the same gap: routine care that nobody else is providing.
Athens, fifteen years later: what the 2011 Games actually changed
Greece's economy was in freefall. The Panathenaic Stadium hadn't hosted an opening ceremony in over a century. Then 7,500 athletes showed up.
The four-second rule: how unified teammates train communication
An Indianapolis coach's stopwatch drill is quietly spreading through unified-basketball programs, and the science is starting to catch up.