The 2025 National Summer Games Opening Ceremony is an experience you won’t forget!

Join us as we welcome and celebrate more than 1,200 incredible athletes with an intellectual disability, along with their dedicated team management, all of whom have qualified to compete at the highest national level.

The Opening Ceremony will be a spectacle of joy, diversity, and inclusion, featuring outstanding entertainment and the inspiring lighting of the Olympic Flame of Hope.

Don’t miss this extraordinary, once-every-four-years celebration of unity, talent, and achievement!

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