CEBU CITY – A complete of 541 student-athletes from the nation’s totally different areas gathered right here on Tuesday for this yr’s Palarong Pambansa.
The eight-day nationwide video games opened on the Cebu Metropolis Sports activities Middle with a program that began at 5:30 p.m.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. led numerous authorities officers who attended the opening ceremony.
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“The Palarong [Pambansa] stands because the nation’s pinnacle of nationwide sporting occasions. As we speak, we proceed this essential legacy, celebrating not simply the video games but additionally celebrating the unity, the camaraderie, and the nationwide delight that these video games encourage,” he mentioned.
“This occasion is extra than simply an inter-school [and] inter-regional competitors. It is usually a platform the place we uncover, the place we develop, and hone future skilled athletes, Olympians, and servant-leaders,” he added.
“The values and virtues that will likely be displayed and put into follow right here—similar to excellence, teamwork, self-discipline, perseverance, and most significantly sportsmanship—are the identical beliefs that we have to achieve life and construct an excellent nation.”
It had been 30 years since Cebu Metropolis final hosted the Palarong Pambansa.
The occasion will culminate on July 16.
The Palarong Pambansa is an annual multi-sport occasion involving student-athletes from the nation’s totally different areas. The occasion, which began in 1948, is organized and ruled by the Division of Training.
Scholar-athletes from private and non-private colleges at elementary and secondary ranges can compete offered they qualify by successful at their regional meet.
For younger Filipino student-athletes, the Palarong Pambansa is the end result of college sports activities competitors, which begins with native faculty intramurals, adopted by the congressional district, provincial, and regional athletic meets.