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Separate classification systems exist for the elite athlete with a disability side affiliated with the Paralympic movement and Virtus (formerly known as the International Sports Federation for Persons with Intellectual Disability INAS), and the sports for all model affiliated with Special Olympics. [footnote 2] People with intellectual ...
The 2014 Special Olympics USA Games were held from June 14 to 21 in New Jersey. [4] The Opening Ceremony was held at Prudential Center in Newark. [5] [6] Competition was held at venues throughout Mercer County including The College of New Jersey in the Trenton suburb of Ewing, [7] Rider University, Princeton University and Mercer County Park.
[2] [3] [4] The convention was the first U.N. human rights treaty of the twenty-first century. [5] The text was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 13 December 2006, [6] and opened for signature on 30 March 2007. Following ratification by the 20th party, it came into force on 3 May 2008. [7]
Disability sports classification is a system that allows for fair competition between people with different types of disabilities.. Historically, the process has been overseen by 2 groups: specific disability type sport organizations that cover multiple sports, and specific sport organizations that cover multiple disability types including amputations, cerebral palsy, deafness, intellectual ...
[2] In 2013, the Special Olympics World Winter Games were held in PyeongChang, South Korea from Jan. 29 – Feb. 5. The Host Town program, in which families host Special Olympics athletes from around the world to help them acclimate to the host country and customs, began on Jan. 26, 2013. [6] In 2015 Special Olympics World Summer Games. [7]
Claiborne subsequently competed as a runner at the Special Olympics of 1970, [4] where she received her first medal as an athlete. [2] She has completed over 25 marathons and has placed in the top 100 women finishers of the Boston Marathon twice. [6] In 2000, Claiborne's life was the subject of "The Loretta Claiborne Story", a television film. [6]
San Francisco Arts & Athletics, Inc. v. United States Olympic Committee, 483 U.S. 522 (1987), is a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States interpreting the trademark rights of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) to regulate the use of the word "Olympic" under the Amateur Sports Act of 1978.
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