Sports
Get to know more about the various sports we feature at the Special Olympics World Winter Games #Turin2025
Special Olympics is dedicated to promoting social inclusion through shared sports training and competition experiences. Unified Sports joins people with and without intellectual disabilities on the same team. It was inspired by a simple principle: training together and playing together is a quick path to friendship and understanding.
In Unified Sports, teams are made up of people of similar age and ability. That makes practices more fun and games more challenging and exciting for all. Having sport in common is just one more way that preconceptions and false ideas are swept away.
At the Winter World Games #Turin2025, Unified Sport Experience exhibitions are planned for floorball and snowshoeing.
In Unified Sports, teams are made up of people of similar age and ability. That makes practices more fun and games more challenging and exciting for all. Having sport in common is just one more way that preconceptions and false ideas are swept away.
At the Winter World Games #Turin2025, Unified Sport Experience exhibitions are planned for floorball and snowshoeing.
MATP is Special Olympics’ movement-based sport program for athletes with profound intellectual disabilities who have high support needs.
It gives athletes the opportunity to practise skills that will prepare them for sport without comparison to others. The focus is on achieving personal bests.
The Program can be made up of skill stations where athletes take part in sport-related activities that develop their mobility, dexterity, striking, kicking and balance.
MATP also involves group games where athletes can work and interact with others to develop their skills.
It gives athletes the opportunity to practise skills that will prepare them for sport without comparison to others. The focus is on achieving personal bests.
The Program can be made up of skill stations where athletes take part in sport-related activities that develop their mobility, dexterity, striking, kicking and balance.
MATP also involves group games where athletes can work and interact with others to develop their skills.
