Athletes selected at the national games will represent the country at the 2023 Special Olympics World Games in Germany.
Hundreds of athletes from across the country gathered in Polokwane, Limpopo at the weekend to compete in this year’s National Special Olympics South Africa Summer Games.
During the national games, athletes competed against each other in athletics, aquatics, basketball, boccie, football, futsal, netball, table tennis and ten-pin bowling.Besides the action on the pitch at the Peter Mokaba Stadium during the three-day event, there was also a health screening and education campaign.
“Special Olympics as an organisation, focuses on athletes with an intellectual disability. Many of these athletes will never get an opportunity like this. Our special needs schools and centres are just not good enough to offer sporting competition that they deserve. And so, for these athletes, this is life-changing,” says Special Olympics South Africa CEO Ancilla Smith.“Many of them have never left their homes. They’ve travelled for the very first time to another province.
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