56-man team leaves for Spl Olympics today

Bangladeshi athletes who are going to take part in the Special Olympic Summer Games in six disciplines pose for photograph during a official photo session in the city Sunday. Hopes are very high as a strong 56-member of Special Olympics Bangladesh contingent will leave here for Greece today (Tuesday) to take part in the Special Olympic Summer Games, reports BSS.

This year Game is expected to be more colourful and more entertaining beginning from June 25, Saturday next in Athens.

This year's Special Olympic Summer Games is expected to attract near about 7,500 intellectual disabilities athletes. Participants from 182 countries will be competing in 22 Olympic-type sports.

However 40 Bangladeshi athletes would be competing in six disciplines - athletics, swimming, badminton, table tennis, football and bocce, a sports quite similar to bowling.

Bangladesh have been participating in the Special Olympics from the 1995 New Heaven Summer Games in United State where the Bangladesh athletes hogged the headlines capturing 20 medals including six gold and the intellectual-challenged athletes maintained their success in last Special Olympics in Shanghai in China, 2007.

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