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Major New Zealand sports Games start tomorrow
Tuesday, 26 November 2013, 3:39 pm | Special Olympics NZ
New Zealand’s largest sporting event for athletes with intellectual disabilities kicks off tomorrow in Dunedin. The eighth Special Olympics New Zealand National Summer Games will see around 1200 athletes with intellectual disabilities competing across ... More >>
Seven new athlete leaders for Special Olympics New Zealand
Wednesday, 20 November 2013, 3:05 pm | Special Olympics NZ
Seven athletes with intellectual disabilities will have the chance to showcase their skills and talents in sport, business, and communications over the coming year. The athletes have joined Special Olympics New Zealand’s prestigious national Athlete ... More >>
Grim picture of health for intellectually disabled Kiwis
Monday, 11 November 2013, 6:43 pm | Special Olympics NZ
For the first time in New Zealand, health authorities have comprehensive, accurate data on the health of New Zealanders with an intellectual disability. More >>
Special Olympics New Zealand Theme Song an iTunes hit
Thursday, 12 September 2013, 1:32 pm | Special Olympics NZ
Nationwide sporting organisation Special Olympics New Zealand has launched its exclusive National Summer Games 2013 Theme Song on iTunes and several other international music sites. More >>
Disability no barrier for Wellington sports fans
Thursday, 29 August 2013, 10:37 am | Special Olympics NZ
Te Rauparaha Arena in Porirua will be a hive of activity on Monday 2 September as students from around the greater Wellington region try out different sports at Special Olympics New Zealand’s Athletes with Disabilities Fun Day. More >>
Charity walkers head for Parliament
Monday, 28 January 2013, 5:18 pm | Special Olympics NZ
Tomorrow (Tuesday 29 January) a Kiwi pair will arrive into Wellington having walked more than 1000-kilometres to get there. More >>
Haley's comet
Friday, 1 July 2011, 12:25 pm | Special Olympics NZ
Haley Long's silver medal in the 400m on Thursday was extra special for her parents Warren and Wendy, considering what they went through before leaving Christchurch. The day before they left for Greece, the June 13 earthquake damaged the property ... More >>
Special Olympics New Zealand team heads away
Monday, 13 June 2011, 4:27 pm | Special Olympics NZ
Special Olympics New Zealand team heads away to 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Athens. More >>
Ever played with balls that glow in the dark?
Friday, 10 June 2011, 12:10 pm | Special Olympics NZ
• Stars on Pars – a new night golf event for Bay of Plenty golfing gurus • • MC – Peter Williams, golf nut, from TVNZ • • Challenging courses made even more challenging as Ambrose teams compete in the dark using whatever means they can ... More >>
Special Olympics NZ announces 2011 team
Wednesday, 3 November 2010, 11:43 am | Special Olympics NZ
Special Olympics New Zealand today announced its team of 36 athletes that will represent New Zealand in Athens, Greece at the 13th Special Olympics World Summer Games, 25 June – 4 July 2011. More >>
Special Olympics NZ Clubs Join Global Celebration
Friday, 24 September 2010, 3:55 pm | Special Olympics NZ
Basketball tournaments, tenpin bowl-a-thons and even classic egg-and- spoon races are just some of the events being held as Special Olympics New Zealand Clubs join the global celebration in honour of Eunice Kennedy Shriver Day, 25 September. More >>
NZ footballers to play Special Olympics Unity Cup
Tuesday, 29 June 2010, 3:47 pm | Special Olympics NZ
Two New Zealand football players are off to Cape Town to play in the Special Olympics Unity Cup presented by Coca-Cola. Mark Liggins, a 36 year-old centre forward who plays for the Special Olympics North Harbour team, and Steve Sumner FIFA Order of ... More >>
Steve Sumner to Play in Special Olympics Unity Cup
Tuesday, 1 June 2010, 4:16 pm | Special Olympics NZ
Former All Whites captain Steve Sumner will join other notable football legends and 16 Special Olympics athletes from around the world in an unprecedented All-Star football match on 3 July in Cape Town before a quarter-final game of the FIFA World Cup championships. More >>
Special Olympics SPARC Finalist
Saturday, 27 February 2010, 3:36 pm | Special Olympics NZ
pecial Olympics New Zealand today learned that it is a finalist in the Event Excellence category of the 2010 New Zealand Sport and Recreation (SPARC) Sector Awards for its 2009 National Summer Games. “We are absolutely over the moon,” says Kathy Gibson. More >>
Review Broadcasting Standards: Special Olympics NZ
Monday, 30 November 2009, 2:53 pm | Special Olympics NZ
In the wake of recent media events, Special Olympics New Zealand has approached the Broadcasting Standards Authority and requested a review of the application of the Broadcasting Standards to ensure that the use of “retard” and “retarded”when ... More >>
The kauri has fallen in the sacred forest of Tane
Wednesday, 12 August 2009, 12:09 pm | Special Olympics NZ
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, a member of one of the most prominent families in American politics and a pioneer in the effort to improve the lives of people with intellectual disabilities, died early Tuesday morning at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Massachusetts. ... More >>
Special Olympics Football Ribbon Day
Monday, 22 June 2009, 10:28 am | Special Olympics NZ
Bays Sport and Kerikeri AFC, was the venue for the recent Special Olympics Northland Secondary Schools Football Ribbon Day. Eight teams from four schools from within the Northland region participated in a very enjoyable day which consisted of both ... More >>
Football – Special Olympics Style!
Monday, 22 June 2009, 10:18 am | Special Olympics NZ
North Harbour Stadium in Albany, was the venue for the recent Special Olympics North Harbour Secondary Schools Football Ribbon Day. Eleven teams from eight schools from within the North Harbour region participated in a very enjoyable day which consisted ... More >>
Disabled sports coaches to pave the way for peers
Wednesday, 17 June 2009, 5:20 pm | Special Olympics NZ
A simple request from a disabled sportsman keen to become a coach has lead to a groundbreaking and innovative new coaching scheme launched in Thames. On June 12, four highly committed sportspeople with intellectual disability attended their first ... More >>
“Board Chairman elected to International Board”
Tuesday, 19 May 2009, 10:23 am | Special Olympics NZ
Chairman of Special Olympics New Zealand (SONZ), David Rutherford has been elected to the Special Olympics International Board of Directors. The Special Olympics Headquarters are based in Washington D.C. Mr Rutherford will represent the Asia Pacific region ... More >>
