‘Mindblowing’ Orkney shows what it has to offer at Island Games: Sports, history and the welcoming island mentality
Men’s football match in Kirkwall: Orkney – Isle of Man. In the background St Magnus Cathedral. Orkney’s flag is everywhere.
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8,000 miles away from home, yet the Island Games feel like home
Islanders always have to cover distances. Literally across the water, otherwise you’d never get anywhere else. At the 2025 Island
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Ukrainian Special Olympics-teen Vlad Bezghinov flourishes on the Dutch athletics track
“Go, Vlad!”, is the cheer which echoes around the AV Sprint athletics track in Breda, Netherlands. And another Ukrainian cheer
EYOF 1991: some become Olympic champion, some don’t. Either way, it’s fine.
The European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF), held this week in Maribor, Slovenia, sparks the Olympic spirit among many young athletes.
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After seven(!) knee surgeries Canadian fire fighter Brouwer debuts at WPFG
If firefighter Aaron Brouwer from Prince George, Canada is lining up in the starting area in Vital Park on Sunday
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No foes at World Military Championship, just football and friendship
Three parachutists hover above football complex De Westmaat in Spakenburg, the Netherlands. Moments later, they land with extreme precision on
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A 30h drive, a goat shepherd and the Champions League feeling: this is university football in Europe
As the Universities of Würzburg (Germany) and Bordeaux (France) won the European University Football Championship in Albania, the Dutch students
Special Olympics about to start: smiling and dancing athletes everywhere
Every face you see inside the Olympic Stadium shows a smile. The Berlin Special Olympics World Games welcomes nearly 6000
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Virtus Global Games: giving people with an intellectual impairment greater equality in the world
A night at the opera began the 2023 Virtus Global Games. However, unlike Queen’s album of a similar name, there
The necessity of the Euro Games
They dance the rumba, the tango, the quickstep. The couples at the beautiful Concertgebouw De Vereeniging at Nijmegen, the Netherlands,