Day two of the 2026 Special Olympics New York State Winter Games is underway.<\/p>\n
Approximately 900 athletes and coaches from throughout the state will compete in seven sports, including Alpine Skiing, Cross Country Skiing, Figure Skating, Floorball, Gymnastics, Snowboarding, and Snowshoe.<\/p>\n
The Games kicked off Friday evening with Special Olympics New York\u2019s Opening Ceremonies<\/a> at the Riverside Convention Center.<\/p>\n State Winter Games Sports Competitions for Saturday, Feb. 21, approximately 10 a.m. \u2013 3 p.m., are as follows:<\/p>\n Alpine Skiing & Snowboarding: Swain Mountain<\/a><\/p>\n Snowshoe & Cross Country Skiing: Bristol Mountain Top<\/a><\/p>\n Figure Skating: Tim Horton\u2019s Ice Complex<\/a><\/p>\n Floorball: Nazareth Golisano Training Center<\/a><\/p>\n Gymnastics: Town of Henrietta Recreation Center<\/a><\/p>\n The Closing Ceremonies & Victory Dance will take place on Saturday from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Riverside Convention Center.<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n RELATED: Ice rescue team safeguards Rochester Polar Plunge as freezing temps grip Lake Ontario<\/a> | Special Olympics seeks volunteers for Winter Games coming to Rochester area<\/a><\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Day two of the 2026 Special Olympics New York State Winter Games is underway. Approximately 900 athletes and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-141087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news","11":"tag-new-york-state","12":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}