70 people with intellectual disabilities participated from September 25 to 28 in various activities such as exciting sailing days and a formidable program with visits to emblematic places in Bizkaia

The Real Club Marítimo del Abra-Real Sporting Club is in the year of its 125 Anniversary and among its many special activities was one with Special Olympics athletes, which took place from Monday 25 September to Thursday 28 with a calendar that covered the sport and visits to emblematic places of Bizkaia. The opening event was held last Sunday, on the pier Evaristo Churruca of Las Arenas with the performance of the Coral Society of Bilbao, to which the Zozoak Choirs of Getxo and Salazar Abesbatzak of Portugalete were joined.

And the farewell was on the Club's terrace with an emotional act in which the various participating delegations received their corresponding medals and recognitions. The Manu Sendagorta, president of the Maritime, Gaizka Ortuzar, president of Special Olympics, Carlos Sergio, director of sports of the Bizkaia Foral Diputación; Vicente Reyes, deputy delegate of the Government in Bizkaia; Igor Goienetxe, business director of the right bank of CaixaBank; Oriol Ruiz Cabestany, president of the Basque Vela Federation; Eduardo Garcia- Santamarina, director of the Maritime sports; and Naiara Santín, secretary of the School of Vela.

The Special Olympics Sailing Course was held for three days at the Abra and meant a magnificent promotion and promotion of the sailing sport with a course of navigation for people with intellectual disabilities. In Special Olympics they link all their efforts through sport and ensure that people with intellectual disabilities have physical, mental and emotional and social benefits. In this case, it was from the contact with the sea in three exciting days of navigation in the Abra that had the support of technicians and coaches of the School of Vela José Luis de Ugarte,

In addition to the sailing activities, in the framework of the Special Olympics programme, the participants were able to enjoy very special visits, as in the extensive programme they went to Klima, the environmental park in Urdaibai, as well as to Punta Begoña, the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum, the Itsasmuseum Bilbao and the Athletic Museum in San Mamés.