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Special Olympics

5 million athletes compete in the Special Olympics

The Special Olympics is the world's biggest sports program for athletes with intellectual disabilities, with over 5 million athletes in 170 countries.

Their motto is: 'Let me win. But if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt.'

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Baseball

MLB built a real cornfield baseball stadium

Major League Baseball built an actual playing field in the middle of an Iowa cornfield for one special game — just like the movie 'Field of Dreams.'

The players walked out of the cornstalks onto the field, exactly like the movie.

Olympics

Olympic athletes often trade pins to make friends

Athletes from every country bring tiny pins to the Olympic Village and trade them with athletes from other countries to make new friends.

Some athletes go home with hundreds of pins from people they'd never have met otherwise.

Running

The oldest marathon runner finished at age 101

Fauja Singh completed marathons until he was 101 years old, proving you really can keep going as long as you keep trying.

He didn't even start running until he was 89!

Gymnastics

Simone Biles has 5 moves named after her

Gymnast Simone Biles has invented so many new moves that 5 of them are officially named 'The Biles' in the gymnastics rulebook.

When you invent something nobody has ever done before, it gets your name on it forever.

Tennis

The longest tennis match ever lasted 11 hours

In 2010 at Wimbledon, two players named John Isner and Nicolas Mahut played a match that stretched across 3 days and 11 hours.

Afterward, the tournament gave them both a special trophy because nobody had ever done that before.