2013 Special Olympic World Winter Games Open In PyeongChang, South Korea

The Special Olympics flag is raised during the Opening Ceremony of the 2013 Special Olympics World Winter Games in Pyeongchang, east of Seoul, South Korea, Jan. 29, 2013. The Special Olympics World Winter Games for athletes with intellectual disabilities is held in Pyeongchang and Gangneung from Jan. 29 to Feb. 5, 2013. <Xinhua/Yao Qilin>

Canada’s Special Olympics team enters the arena stage at the YongPyong dome during the 2013 Special Olympics World Winter Games opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. About 2,300 athletes from 110 countries are participating in seven sports, such as snowboarding, alpine skiing and figure skating, and one demonstration sport, floorball.

Actors during a traditional Korean performance which symbolizes people of the world joining in the celebration of a beautiful moment at the opening ceremony of the 2013 Special Olympics World Winter Games at the YongPyong dome in PyeongChang, South Korea on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. <Manchul Kim/AP Images for Special Olympics>

Dancers perform during the opening ceremony of the 10th Special Olympics World Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. South Korea began showing off its new snow sports mecca with the opening of the Special Olympics on Tuesday. Pyeongchang, the once-sleepy hamlet in the mountains east of the capital, will also host the Winter Olympics in five years. <AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon>

Aung San Suu Kyi, center, Myanmar’s opposition leader, flanked by Olympic figure skating gold medalist Kim Yu-na of South Korea, and Timothy Perry Shriver, chairman and CEO of the Special Olympics, applauds at the opening of the Special Olympics World Winter Games for athletes with intellectual disabilities in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. <AP Photo/Kim Jae-hwan, Pool>