It is the Olympic Games for people with learning disabilities. They are different to the Olympics and the Paralympics. See the link below.
As many as can qualify.
Yes.
yes
Our head coach here (club team) in Southern California says only 3-5 % of all swimmers could qualify.
by winning
nothing they couldn't qualify
Special Olympics was created in 1968.
he did
During the pre Olympics , each athalete must do well and qualify to reach the Olympics from each country.
No, they don't offer badminton in special olympics
It all depends on if you qualify for that many events. You cannot compete in a swimming event in the olympics unless you qualify. So yeah it would be a great thing to do because you could would have more opportunies to achieve a medal.
Australia's duet and team did not qualify for the Olympics. They performed in Sydney by default as the host nation, but could not swim at the Athens or Beijing Olympics because they needed higher scores at international competitions to do that.