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The Kingdom’s Special Olympics Team Brought Home The Gold!
The Kingdom’s Special Olympics Team took part in the Detriot Unifed Cup and won a gold medal in football!
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Saudi went up against more than 89 countries and claimed victory just this Saturday
The Saudi Informatics team of @mawhiba students is preparing to represent #SaudiArabia in the International Informatics Olympiad, where they will compete with students from 89 countries around the world
Good luck! pic.twitter.com/20D9LKvH17
— SAPRAC (@SapracOrg) August 7, 2022
The Unified Cup is a competition that features athletes with intellectual disiabilites and those without. The Special Olympic games were established back in 1994 and have been an annual event since. Other countries including Jamaica, Korea, Morocco, Nigeria, Paraguay, Singapore and USA all participated in these challenging games.
