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Brother-sister track duo qualify for Junior Olympics in first year, family seeks community help to make trip possible.
Teachers, caregivers, and others were all there to cheer on the athletes. WATCH: 2022 Special Olympics USA Games underway in Orlando. This event was a special opportunity for young kids who don ...
Twelve young athletes from East Oakland have qualified to compete in the 2025 USATF National Junior Olympic Track and Field ...
To understand the impact of Special Olympics, one needs to look no further than the camp that Monarch’s football team helped ...
The Youth Olympics, for athletes ages 14 to 18, debuted in Singapore in 2010, followed in 2014 in Nanjing, China. Youth Winter Games were in Innsbruck, Austria, in 2012 and Lillehammer, Norway, in ...
Critics have complained that the money spent by the government on the Youth Olympics could have been better used. The IOC initially projected in 2007 the Youth Games would cost $30 million to stage.
The first Youth Olympic Games were held in 2010 under the leadership of then-IOC President Jacques Rogge, who had pushed for the event in 2007, believing that interest in sports among young people ...
SALT LAKE CITY — The news of the Winter Games potentially coming to Salt Lake City in 2034 was huge for young Utah athletes with Olympic dreams on their minds. "Oh, I think it's amazing," said ...
And many other aspects, even Olympic history are very popular among the athletes," he said. The Youth Olympics was widely seen as an incubator for innovation within the Olympic Movement, and ...
After spending two years examining the way the youth and Olympic sports programs are run in the United States, a Congress-appointed committee is urging reforms in access to sports and athlete safety.
After Los Angeles agreed nearly a decade ago to host the 2028 Olympics, organizers committed $160 million to local youth ...
A group of local athletes got to train and learn from current members of the Olympic gymnastics team. The last week has been one of Olympic-sized inspiration for 9-year-old Simpsonville gymnast ...