Bangladesh win 18 gold medals in Special Olympics, Greece

[Bengal_Tiger]

Bangladesh win 18 gold medals in Spl Olympics




It was a golden day for Bangladesh as Bangladesh won 18 gold medals and one silver at Special Olympics World Summer Games at Athens, Greece as report received in the capital Saturday, reports UNB.

Bangladesh won the Gold medal in Football (11 a side, which is considered as the most prestigious & important event in Special Olympics football event defeating Spain (Score :11-01). (Total 16 gold medals as individual medals are counted)

Bangladesh bagged their second gold of the day as Farhana Tanzia won the medal in Table Tennis (Singles).

Besides, Kaniz Fatema & Tanzina Islam Tonu bagged Gold & Silver medal respectively in Long Jump Event.

Inaugurated on June 25, the games will run until July 4.

More than 7,000 athletes from 180 nations, 40 of those from Bangladesh, are participating in the Games.

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[Shayesta]

Impressive, very impressive. Congrats man and keep up with the world of sports.

What is the 'Special Olympics' about? Heard about it for the first time.

[Bengal_Tiger]

Tom Shriver of the Special Olympics.



A special Olympics football kit.



Bangladesh are the new world champions of football, in the special Olympics, beating Spain, the actual world champions.

11 - 1

[Khan Lala]

good for you!

[Bengal_Tiger]

Impressive, very impressive. Congrats man and keep up with the world of sports.

What is the 'Special Olympics' about? Heard about it for the first time.

Special Olympics is the world's largest sports organization for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, providing year-round training and competitions to more than 3.1 million athletes in 175 countries. Alternating between summer and winter, the Special Olympics World Games are held every two years. Often the Games are the largest sporting event to take place in the World that year. There are also local, national and regional competitions in over 175 countries worldwide...

Special Olympics has over 30 Olympic-type individual and team sports that provide meaningful training and competition opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities. And a few are listed below:

• Alpine Skiing
• Aquatics
• Basketball
• Bowling
• Cross Country Skiing
• Figure Skating
• Floor Hockey
• Golf
• Gymnastics
• Powerlifting
• Snowshoe
• Soccer
• Softball
• Tennis
• Volleyball

These are only a few sports that the Special Olympics has to offer, there are many more sports available. Sports that the Special Olympics have to offer does vary. These sports vary depending on the specific organization you are with and depending on the state you are in. Special Olympic sports also vary because in the winter time the sports played are rarely the same as the sports played in the summer. The youth athletes (ages 2-7) play simple sports like basketball, soccer, racing, etc. The youth play these simple sports because they are not capable of doing the other sports due to their age. If Special Olympics volunteers do decide to let the youth play other sports it will be a different, but similar version of that game. In 1968, track and field and swimming were the first two official sports offered by Special Olympics. As in the Olympics, events are introduced in training and then added to the competitive schedule, and from there the list of sports and events continued to grow.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Olympics

Out of all of those, soccer (football) is seen as the most prestigious and Bangladesh have just won it beating Spain 11 - 1.

http://www.specialolympics.org/

Here is what the Afghanistani team achieved:

http://www.specialolympics.org/world...SO+Afghanistan