Team Orisports 05-Mar-2017
Special Olympics Bharat-Odisha (SOBO), in collaboration with Unit-VI Athletic Association, today accorded warm send-off to two athletes and two coaches of the state for the Special Olympics World Winter Games 2017, scheduled to be held in the cities of Graz, Schladming and Ramsau in Austria from March 14 to 25.
The two athletes (Sarita Routray and Sonali Pradhan) and the two coaches (Sasmita Mohapatra and Swagatika Parida) have been included in a 131-member Indian contingent of athletes, coaches, support staff, officials, families and youth leaders for the Games, which would feature competition in seven sports, namely alpine skiing, snowboarding, snow shoeing, figure skating, speed skating, floor hockey and floorball (including unified floorball). The National team would leave for the Games on March 13 from Delhi.
