Other Competitive Opportunities Outside Special Olympics
As well, a few sports bodies have included parallel and integrated competitions for some of our athletes. This aspect of the relationship with other bodies is particularly satisfying and will continue to be promoted by SOM.

• Canada Games
• Western Canada Games
• Manitoba Games

INAS-FID and CAAIDS

In 1986 the International Federation of Sport for People with Intellectual Disability (INAS-FMH from the original French title) was created to follow the principles of normalization and develop programs in competition that would parallel normative sport.

In 1992 Special Olympics Manitoba was instrumental in the development and incorporation of the Canadian Association of Athletes with an Intellectual Disability (CAAID) to enable high performing athletes the opportunity to compete in open competition against their peers. CAAID became a member of INAD-FMH and the Canadian Paralympic Committee in 1993 thus gaining Canadian athletes with an intellectual disability access to Paralympic Games and International Paralympic World Championships.

In 1992 Canada participated in the Madrid Paralympic Games, separate from the Barcelona Paralympics, in the sports of athletics and swimming. In 1994, CAAID sent three athletes and two coaches to the Paralympic Games in Lillihammmer. In 1996, CAAID send one athlete to the Atlanta Paralympic Games, a Canadian team member with other athletes with disabilities for the first time. In 1998, CAAID send three athletes and two coaches to the Paralympic Games in Nagano, Japan to compete and coach in the sport of cross-country skiing. All five were from Manitoba. In 1999 three athletes with an intellectual disability competed at the IPC World Track & Field Championships in Seville, Spain. In 2000, one athlete with an intellectual disability competed at the IPC World Cross Country Championships in Grans, Switzerland. Also in 2000, three athletes competed at the World Track & Field Championships. Jason Chartrand of Winnipeg placed 5th in the 1500M. In 2005 Ashlee McLeod competed at the INAS-FID World Swim Championships in Liberac, Czech Republic.

Manitoba’s high level athletes with an intellectual disability continue to have excellent competitive opportunities all over the world at very high standards. CAAID has a cooperative relationship with Special Olympics Manitoba, which provides a small amount of funding to the organization annually.

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