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Sports 21/07/2015 Uzbekistan team to attend Special Olympics World Games 2015
Uzbekistan team to attend Special Olympics World Games 2015
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- The Fourteenth Special Olympics World Games will be held in Los Angeles (USA) from 25 July to 2 August 2015. The first Special Olympics World Games was held in Chicago in July 1968.

Special Olympics World Games is the main event for Special Olympic Movement. The event is organized twice a year with interchange of summer and winter games. Thousands of athletes, coaches, athletes and speculators participate in the Games.

This year, over 7,000 athletes from 170 countries will attend the Games. This is the largest sport games in 2015. Special Olympics Uzbekistan (SOU) national team will attend the event as well.

The Uzbek team includes 20 athletes, who will represent the country in such sports as athletics, aquatics, artistic and rhythmic gymnastics, table tennis and badminton.

Sen Yolg’iz Emassan Foundation supported initiative to participate of Uzbekistan team in the event and acted as main sponsor of the travel. Training camps of the athletes were held at Uzbekistan Gymnastics Federation, where they lived, trained and underwent medical examination. The Foundation developed and purchased clothes for the Uzbek athletes.

Before the competition, Sen Yolg’iz Emassan organized an entertainment programme for the Uzbek athletes, who will visit Disneyland and Attraction Park of Universl Studios, etc.

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