The international Tro-Phy-Gital tour was presented at the World Nomad Games
WORLD NOMAD GAMEZ 2024
Phygital Trophy returned from space for a new expedition – this time the rally will visit the participating countries of the World Phygital Community.
After orbiting around the planet on the ISS for almost a year, the legendary Trophy of the Games of the Future 2024, charged with cosmic energy, will make the final round now on earth, as a part of the international Tro-Phy-Gital tour.
The initiators of the rally were phygital sports enthusiasts and members of the World Phygital Community. Kazakhstan served as the starting point for the international project. At the main stage of the 5th World Nomad Games in Astana, a ceremony was held to launch the Trophy on its new journey. Hero of the Soviet Union and Hero of the Russian Federation, a Russian cosmonaut, Sergei Krikalev presented the Trophy which returned from the International Space Station (ISS) to the rally participants. The heroes of the expedition then loaded the Trophy into a time-honored «Bukhanka» produced by the Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant. This vehicle will travel thousands of kilometers over the next four weeks.
The Trophy will be accompanied by the winners of the National Social media competition, which took place this summer with the support of the VK Community Relations Department, as well as special guests – international phygital sports fans and winners of phygital national competitions.
«The Trophy is going on a long journey around the world, and it is a great honor for our team to accompany it», says Han Xueying, a student from China who will participate in the tour. «Phygital sport unites people of different nationalities, cultures and views. Our team brings together talented young people from all over the world. We’re ready to hit the road!!
The route includes the countries that are active members of the World Phygital movement – Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran, and Qatar. The multinational tour team consists of people from different countries – Russia, Yemen, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and China. Participants will travel thousands of kilometers and complete a variety of creative tasks along the way.
«We are grateful for the energy that was given to us at the Ceremony in Kazakhstan, and we will use it for our big adventure. We promise to safeguard the Trophy along the route and tell everyone who meets us in the cities about the phygital movement», adds another participant of the tour, children’s football coach Vyacheslav Golik. «The future belongs to phygital sports, as it meets the needs and desires of children and youth. I am sure that after our tour, more people will love phygital sports as much as we do».
At each stop it is planned to hold a variety of sports, cultural, educational events to attract a wide audience to the phygital format and promote the harmonious development of the person of the future. A series of dynamic and entertaining sports events will inspire interest in physical activity and a healthy lifestyle among people of all ages, especially children and young adults.
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Tro-Phy-Gital tour is an international rally created by the fans of phygital sports, combining competitions in physical and digital dimensions. The Trophy of the Games of the Future was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station on December 1, 2023.
