There are also basketball, handball, hockey and athletics stadia, most notably Morton Stadium in Santry, which held the athletics events of the 2003 Special Olympics.

They were also used for the Special Olympics Shanghai, Pan American and Central African Games relays.

In January 2009, the IFF and the sport of floorball received recognition from the Special Olympics.

This recognition could make floorball an official Special Olympics sport in just two years.

As well, the IFF hopes that floorball will be included as a demonstration sport at the 2013 Special Olympics World Winter Games.

In addition to recognition by the International Olympic Committee and Special Olympics, the IFF is also a member of the General Association of International Sports Federations ( GAISF ), and co-operates with the International University Sports Federation ( FISU ).

Floorball at Special Olympics is slightly modified from the " regular " form of floorball.

This form of floorball was developed for the intellectually disabled, and has yet to be played at the Special Olympics.

There is a strong possibility that it will be played at the 2013 Special Olympics World Winter Games.

* 1921 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American activist, co-founded the Special Olympics ( d. 2009 )

For the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he was named Special Advisor to the Canada men's national ice hockey team.

Sport for persons with intellectual disabilities began to be organized in the 1960s through the Special Olympics movement.

In 1968 the first international Special Olympics were held, in Chicago.

Today, Special Olympics provides training and competition in a variety of sports for persons with intellectual disabilities.

This was established in contrast to the more participative, " sport for all " approach of Special Olympics.

In 2007, a group of San Diego, California-based athletes, coaches, volunteers, and parents split from Special Olympics Southern California to gain local control over disabled athletics programs.

Studies have continued to question the motivation for joining such competitions like the Special Olympics as well as the Paralympic Games.

The Motivations for joining the Special Olympics uncover themes among individuals and families for their participation or abstention from these Olympic programs.

* Special Olympics

* Special Olympics

The Office of Homeland Security ( OHS ) designated the Olympics a National Special Security Event ( NSSE ).

Special Olympics is the world's largest sports organization for children and adults with disabilities, providing year-round training and competitions to more than 4 million athletes in 170 countries.

Special Olympics competitions are held every day, all around the world — including local, national and regional competitions, adding up to more than 53, 000 events a year

These competitions include the Special Olympics World Games, which alternate between summer and winter games.

Special Olympics World Games are held every two years.

Special shoeing can help enhance their natural movement.

The growing movement in art paralleled developments in physics, such as Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity ( 1905 ); innovations in industry, such as the development of the internal combustion engine ; and the increased role of the social sciences in public policy.

With the decreasing number of such matters to be addressed as the trust territories attained independence and the decolonization movement progressed, the functions of the Special Political Committee were merged into the Fourth Committee during the 1990s.

Later, in 1879, the New York state legislature commissioned Olmsted and James T. Gardner to survey the falls and to create the single most important document in the Niagara preservation movement, a Special Report on the preservation of Niagara Falls.

The Special Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws, 1951 – 77, more commonly known as the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee ( SISS ) and sometimes the McCarran Committee, was authorized under S. 366, approved December 21, 1950, to study and investigate ( 1 ) the administration, operation, and enforcement of the Internal Security Act of 1950 (, also known as the McCarran Act ) and other laws relating to espionage, sabotage, and the protection of the internal security of the United States and ( 2 ) the extent, nature, and effects of subversive activities in the United States " including, but not limited to, espionage, sabotage, and infiltration of persons who are or may be under the domination of the foreign government or organization controlling the world Communist movement or any movement seeking to overthrow the Government of the United States by force and violence.

The latest approved definition by the US Special Operations Command is as follows: Unconventional Warfare consists of activities conducted to enable a resistance movement or insurgency to coerce, disrupt or overthrow an occupying power or government by operating through or with an underground, auxiliary and guerrilla force in a denied area.

Special delegates associated with the movement also read copies of the independence proclamation from appointed places throughout the country at 2 PM on that same day.

Veerappan and his associates were travelling in an ambulance, heading for treatment for Veerappan's eyes, but the Tamilnadu Special Task Force, which was observing his movement for seveal months surrounded the three men.

Among the members of the Action Group were individuals who subsequently fell victim to psychiatric abuse themselves: the poetess Natalya Gorbanevskaya who in 1968 demonstrated on Red Square against bringing Soviet tanks into Czechoslovakia ; Vladimir Borisov who later was one of the founders of the independent labor movement in the Soviet Union ; Vladimir Maltsev, a translator ; and Leonid Plyushch, a Ukrainian cyberneticist who was committed to the Special Psychiatric Hospital of Dnepropetrovsk and was awfully tortured with neuroleptics.

Special commands were also available, for example to facilitate movement around the database it was possible to step back through a maximum of 3 frames or pages by use of the special key combination "*#".

At 23: 30, North Vietnamese artillery started pounding the Lang Vei Special Forces Camp, which covered the movement of the 24th Regiment and the 3rd Battalion, 101D Regiment.

An unknown number of Poles ( including the best known, Krystyna Skarbek ) were also parachuted into France by the British Special Operations Executive to start an underground movement among the half-million-strong Polish minority.

He was arrested in 1979 by the Baathist regime twice on charges of involvement in the Kurdish national movement and spent 43 days in detention in a Special Investigation Commission prison in Kirkuk where he was tortured.

The British Government and the Government of Gibraltar today argue that the membership of both Gibraltar and Spain in the European Union ( EU ) — Gibraltar was included as a Special Member State territory when the United Kingdom joined the EU in 1973 ; Spain joined the EU in 1986 — supersedes such restrictions as the EU is committed to free movement of goods and services.

* A Special Committee was to be formed to make arrangements for safe movement of traffic between Jerusalem and Mount Scopus campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, along the Latrun-Jerusalem Highway, free access to the Holy Places, and other matters.

The origins of the communist movement in Thailand begin with the founding of the Siam Special Committee of the South Seas Communist Party between 1926 and 1927.

Rusher wrote five books: Special Counsel ( 1968 ), a memoir of his time on the Internal Security Subcommittee ; The Making of the New Majority Party ( 1975 ), in which he advocated the establishment of a new conservative party to replace the Republicans in the post-Watergate period ; How to Win Arguments ( 1981 ), a primer of debating techniques ; The Rise of the Right ( 1984 ), a history of the conservative movement from the 1950s to the early 1980s, re-released in 1993 with an appendix covering more recent developments ; and The Coming Battle for the Media ( 1988 ).

* Charles Colson, Leader in the Christian right movement, former Special Counsel to Richard Nixon, and jailed for conspiring during the Watergate scandal

The persons to be nominated must have rendered distinguished public service, or have brought honour to Singapore, or have distinguished themselves in the field of arts and letters, culture, the sciences, business, industry, the professions, social or community service or the labour movement ; and in making any nomination, the Special Select Committee must have regard to the need for NMPs to reflect as wide a range of independent and non-partisan views as possible.

With hit albums and sold-out tours ( as well as leading a southern rock movement -- as well as the emergence of such similarly styled acts as. 38 Special, Blackfoot, Molly Hatchet, the Outlaws, etc .-- it appeared that things could only get better for the Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Special contributions came from his initial contact with Inness shortly after that artist's sojourn in France ; the startling revelations disclosed to Wyant by his study of John Constable and J. M. W. Turner and his stroke in 1873, which accelerated the artist's movement away from the sort of detailed examination of natural facts that one finds, for example, in his well-known, Mohawk Valley, in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Special Combat Aggressive Reactionary Systems ( SCARS ) is an American combat fighting system created by Jerry L. Peterson based on sciences of psychology, physiology, physical movement as well as research on the nervous system ; the company website claims " It does not stem from any martial arts nor is it a combination of martial arts or any other fighting system.