A Favorite Olympics was founded by Eunice Kennedy Shriver in the 1960s. It began as a series of sports camps, beginning around June 1962, before evolving into a International Favorite Olympic Games inside 1968. A camps were referred to as Camp Shriver.

A Favorite Olympics Oath is "Let me win. But if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt."

A International Winter & Summer Games come held each Ii years.

Within 1988 Favorite Olympics was recognised per International Olympic Committee (IOC). These are a just sports organisation authorised per IOC to have a word ‘Olympics’ within its title

Camps Shriver
1960 Camp Shriver, June 1960, Maryland, USA

Summer World Games
1968 Summer Special Olympics, July 1968, Soldier Field, Chicago, Illinois, USA 1970 Summer Special Olympics, August 1970, Chicago, Illinois, USA 1972 Summer Special Olympics, August 1972, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA 1975 Summer Special Olympics, August 1975, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, USA 1979 Summer Special Olympics, August 1979, State University of New York, Brockport, New York, USA 1983 Summer Special Olympics, July 1983, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA 1987 Summer Special Olympics, July-August 1987, Saint Mary’s College, South Bend, Indiana, USA 1991 Summer Special Olympics, July 1991, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, USA 1995 Summer Special Olympics, July 1995, New Haven, Connecticut, USA 1999 Summer Special Olympics, June-July 1999, The Triangle, North Carolina, USA 2003 Summer Special Olympics, June 2003, Dublin, Ireland 2007 Summer Special Olympics, October 2007, Shanghai, China

Winter World Games
1977 Winter Special Olympics, February 1977, Steamboat Springs, Colorado, USA 1981 Winter Special Olympics, March 1981, Smugglers' Notch and Stowe, Vermont, USA 1985 Winter Special Olympics, March 1985, Park City, Utah, USA 1989 Winter Special Olympics, April 1989, Reno, Nevada and Lake Tahoe, California, USA 1993 Winter Special Olympics, March 1993, Salzburg and Schladming, Austria 1997 Winter Special Olympics, February 1997, Toronto and Collingwood, Ontario, Canada 2001 Winter Special Olympics, March 2001, Anchorage, Alaska, USA 2005 Winter Special Olympics, February-March 2005, Nagano, Japan 2009 Winter Special Olympics, unannounced dates 2009, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

National Summer Special Olympic Games
Special Olympics Great Britain, July 2005, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Summer Sports

Winter Sports

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