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The World Friendship Games (WFG) was an international multi-sport event to be held as an alternative to the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. The event was originally planned be held in Russia from 15 to 29 September, 2024, shortly after the Summer Olympics in Paris. However, it was announced in 2024 that it had been postponed until 2025, then lter postponed indifintly.

The opening and closing ceremonies were to be held at the Luzhniki Stadium.

The World Friendship Games 2025 were organized in response to the exclusion of many Russian teams and events from elite international sport.

Sports

The sports program was set to include over 30 sports, both Olympic and non-Olympic. Most of the events were to be held in Moscow, a few in Yekaterinburg.

• 3х3 Basketball
• Acrobatic Rock’n’Roll
• Algorithmic Programming
• Archery
• Artistic Gymnastics
• Artistic Swimming
• Athletics
• Badminton
• Basketball
• Beach Soccer
• Beach Volleyball
• Boxing
• Breaking
• Canoe Slalom
• Chess
• Cycling (BMX freestyle)
• Diving
• Equestrian
• Fencing
• High Diving
• Judo
• Jujitsu
• Karate
• Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)
• Padel
• Rhythmic Gymnastics
• Sambo
• Skateboarding
• Sport Climbing
• Swimming
• Table Tennis
• Taekwondo
• Triathlon
• Weightlifting
• Wrestling

Trivia

• The athletes at the World Friendship Games will win cash prizes in addition to winning medals.
• The games mascot is a tiger and the Games logo depicts two white hands clasped across a globe

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Related Pages

• About the Friendships Games Events
• Alternative Olympic Games — events organized in response to boycotts or sanctions by the IOC as an alternative to the Olympic Games.
• 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris
• Complete List of Multi-Sport Events from around the world.
• About International Multi-Events
• About Sport in Russia
• About the Luzhniki Stadium
• World sports calendar
• Multi-Sport Events (Games) Calendar