{"id":152804,"date":"2020-05-15T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/?p=152804"},"modified":"2021-02-02T14:25:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T22:25:29","slug":"the-power-of-special-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/the-power-of-special-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"How Special Olympics Is Empowering Athletes With Intellectual Disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re incredibly honored to partner with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.specialolympics.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Special Olympics<\/a> to end the discrimination against and empower those with intellectual disabilities, especially during these trying times.<\/p>\n<p>With over 5 million athletes in more than 190 countries and territories, Special Olympics is helping athletes build meaningful connections and continue to find joy and fulfillment in their lives, even with events and competitions postponed in response to COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-152812\" src=\"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ATP8234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/04124336\/ATP8234.jpg 3780w, https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/04124336\/ATP8234-148x222.jpg 148w, https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/04124336\/ATP8234-154x230.jpg 154w, https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/04124336\/ATP8234-768x1150.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/04124336\/ATP8234-407x610.jpg 407w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Every donation in the <a href=\"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/add-ons\/?category=123\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Summer Add-Ons<\/a> and Edit Sale will support Special Olympics&#8217; charitable mission including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Resources for athletes to stay active and healthy<\/li>\n<li>Sports competition and training opportunities that enable athletes to build meaningful relationships and learn valuable skills on and off the field<\/li>\n<li>Training for health care professionals to provide quality care for individuals with intellectual disabilities during this challenging time and into the future<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/play.specialolympics.org\/page\/s\/include-fff?source=FabFitFunPledge&amp;utm_source=FFF&amp;utm_medium=partner&amp;utm_campaign=FFF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more about how you can get involved at www.specialolympics.org<\/a> and check out the video below.<\/p>\n<div><script src=\"https:\/\/cdn.jwplayer.com\/players\/ufAQ9qnx-6qvX906d.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>xx, The FabFitFun Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":"We\u2019re incredibly honored to partner with Special Olympics to end the discrimination against and empower ...","author":422344,"featured_media":152810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[722,201],"tags":[604],"thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/04123958\/special-olympics1.jpg","thumbnail_url_middle_card":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/04123958\/special-olympics1-386x200.jpg","formated_date":"May 15, 2020","category_name":"Members Only","category_icon":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/11113301\/iSiu0EDM.png","author_name":"Monica Chang","trending":false,"sponsored":false,"random_color":"#2b31db","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/422344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}