{"id":258079,"date":"2026-04-22T00:12:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tenbizt.com\/en\/news\/uncategorized\/2026\/04\/22\/incheon-special-olympics-2026-how-sports-empower-individuals-with-intellectual-disabilities\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T00:12:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:12:32","slug":"incheon-special-olympics-2026-how-sports-empower-individuals-with-intellectual-disabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenbizt.com\/en\/news\/sports\/2026\/04\/22\/incheon-special-olympics-2026-how-sports-empower-individuals-with-intellectual-disabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Incheon Special Olympics 2026: How Sports Empower Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Translation result<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-union.tenbizt.com\/contents\/crawler-dev\/image\/2026\/04\/CP-2023-0083\/image-626af639-2ad8-4305-9a05-9cf324bc202f.jpeg\" alt=\"21\uc77c\" \uc5f4\ub9b0 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