Los Angeles will host the 2015 Special Olympics Summer Games, the event's organizers announced Wednesday.
Founded more than 40 years ago by Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Special Olympics is the world's largest athletic competition for the mentally disabled. The games, which will take place at arenas and venues around the region, will bring about 7,000 athletes and 40,000 volunteers, organizers said.
Timothy Shriver, Eunice's son and the chairman of Special Olympics, made the announcement at a news conference at Staples Center. He was joined by his sister, former California first lady Maria Shriver, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe and more than two dozen athletes from the Olympics and Special Olympics.
Timothy Shriver said Special Olympics "is not an event, but a movement."
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