A team of physicists affiliated with several institutions in South Korea is claiming to have created the elusive room-temperature/ambient-pressure superconducting material.

Their work has not yet been peer reviewed. They have posted two papers on the arXiv preprint server. The Special Olympics Korea International Unified Sports Games, where people with and without disabilities train and compete together, will be held in Inje County, Gangwon Province.

The games will run from September 15 to 17, and will feature four sports: basketball, volleyball, soccer, and floorball. A total of 550 athletes will participate, including 53 players and coaches from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macau, who are part of the Special Olympics East Asia region.

Special Olympics Korea plans to conduct health check-up programs for the participants, such as eye, oral, internal medicine, nutrition, health, and flexibility tests, with the help of 100 medical volunteers and clinical supervisors.

Kwon Heon-ju, the sports marketing manager of Special Olympics Korea, said, “We hope this event will be an opportunity to improve the awareness of a society where people with and without disabilities can coexist” and “We will do our best to ensure the safety of the athletes by deploying medical staff and inspecting facilities.”

Unified sports is a sports activity where people with and without disabilities form a team and train and compete together.