Special Olympics Illinois is a nonprofit organization offering year-round training and competition in 18 sports to a community of more than 60,000 traditional athletes, young athletes, unified ...

A Special Olympics athlete since he was ... a runner must complete all six of the world marathon majors: Tokyo, Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago, and New York City. Even if Cantara is more than ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A Chicago Special Olympian ... The victim, who has competed in Special Olympics Illinois for basketball, was taken to a local hospital with a gunshot wound to his calf.

Saturday’s events at the Christie Clinic Illinois Race Weekend drew groups of friends who ran together, left, and the ...

Oak Lawn Community High School student Megan McLaughlin won the gold medal at the state basketball championship for Special Olympics ... one of three teachers in Illinois to win this year.

Assefa, the marathon silver medalist at the Paris Olympics, finished in 2 hours 15 ... so to win this year is very special. I am really very happy,” Assefa told BBC One.

Nike, the originators of the ‘super shoe’ concept when they swept the marathon at the Rio Olympics in 2016 and ... and to win here this year is very special. I am really very happy.

The winner of the 2024 Olympic marathon trials, Mantz has routinely etched his name in the record books over the last few years. At the 2023 Chicago ... at the 2024 Summer Olympics with an eighth ...

Northwest Missouri's Mayson Hartley also gained two all-conference finishes. The Clarinda product ran the 3,000 steeplechase ...

Six months later he ran the Chicago Marathon, and, despite feeling good in the latter stages of the race, he eased off the gas. “I got anxious that I might blow up,” he says. Special ... (2:09:05), ...