National sports games
The event that characterizes this year 1985 is the holding of the National Sports Games. Algiers hosts the final phase of these games from July 4 to 13.
Cultural action combining sports and leisure, the organization of the National Sports Games is the sporting dimension of the program initiated on the occasion of the 1st National Youth Festival and the International Youth Year which is held on the same date.
The celebration, each year, of this meeting can only confirm the solid links forged between generations of militants and mujahideen and the rising generations of free and independent Algeria.
Their symbolic value as well as their historical density reflect the recognition due to the sacrifices of the martyrs and a testimony of renewed confidence in the future of youth.
The National Sports Games, which will extend throughout the national territory, aim to promote the practice of sport, all disciplines combined, while at the same time carrying out an evaluation of the level on both the quantitative and qualitative levels of the sporting elite.
The objective being first of all to involve all the municipalities of the country, this large-scale operation will tend to breathe dynamism and energy deep into the mentalities and structures which govern the Algerian sports movement.
After a general and then sectoral evaluation concerning all the sporting disciplines offered, 7,000 athletes of both sexes in the three age categories and 16 disciplines will be there for this great challenge. Coinciding with this event, the celebration of independence and youth festivals was in the spirit of the anthem to friendship, progress and peace.
In this year 1985, Algeria stood out for the multicultural and sporting diversity of the activities undertaken in favor of youth.