Celebrations on the occasion of sending off the national team of Turkmenistan to the XXXIII Summer Olympic Games to be held in Paris (France) from July 26 till August 11 took place in the Martial Arts Sports Complex of the Olympic Village in the capital. Held every four years, these large-scale competitions gather the best representatives of the sports world from all parts of the planet.

In order to increase the international sports authority of the Motherland in the period of the Revival of the New Era of the Powerful State and for the successful performance of our athletes at the forthcoming Olympiad in Paris, President Serdar Berdimuhamedov, who is the head of the National Olympic Committee, issued two special resolutions, according to which a programme was developed and an Organising Committee was established to prepare national teams for the XXXIII Summer Olympic Games and the XVII Summer Paralympic Games in the French capital.