This year’s final national stage of the school sports games Umid Nihollari will be held in Navoi. The competitions in twelve sports (basketball, volleyball, handball, football, athletics, gymnastics, swimming, chess, tennis, table tennis, Kurash and belt wrestling) will challenge the most deserving, those who distinguished themselves at the regional, national and even international competitions. But the main achievement of Umid Nihollari 2012 could be already announced as the first qualifying stages of the competition attracted as many as 4,271,696 children.

Think about this figure as it vividly indicates to the government’s care taken of young Uzbek citizens for educating a healthy and comprehensively developed generation, the path the country is following from the very first days of independence. There is no need to explain that these games are not just promote children's sports, provide a basis for the education of talented athletes, but also unite young people, strengthen the friendship ties among boys and girls across the country.

Participating in the second district stages, children meet with their peers from other schools, make new friends and expand their outlook, as the second stages involve almost half a million children. During the spring school vacation children will have the third, regional stages where they will be able to make more new friends.

And when in late May the finalists will meet in the youngest regional capital of Uzbekistan, built to be a trueborn sport city, the games will turn into a real festival of sport, while the beautiful sports arenas restored and presented in conformity with modern requirements will not just be a venue for hot battles, but also a center of communication of the young citizens of sovereign Uzbekistan, the future of the country.