Palarong Pambansa 2024 Parade of Athletes | PHOTO: Voysen T. Balneg by way of the official Fb account of the Cebu Metropolis Palarong Pambansa 2024 Organizing Committee
CEBU CITY – A complete of 541 student-athletes from the nation’s completely 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 Heart 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. At the moment, we proceed this vital legacy, celebrating not simply the video games but in addition celebrating the unity, the camaraderie, and the nationwide pleasure that these video games encourage,” he stated.
“This occasion is extra than simply an inter-school [and] inter-regional competitors. Additionally it is 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 can be displayed and put into apply right here—similar to excellence, teamwork, self-discipline, perseverance, and most significantly sportsmanship—are the identical beliefs that we have to reach life and construct an amazing 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 completely different areas. The occasion, which began in 1948, is organized and ruled by the Division of Schooling.
Pupil-athletes from private and non-private colleges at elementary and secondary ranges can compete offered they qualify by profitable at their regional meet.
For younger Filipino student-athletes, the Palarong Pambansa is the fruits of college sports activities competitors, which begins with native college intramurals, adopted by the congressional district, provincial, and regional athletic meets.
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