From 11 to 13 May, 2007 regional sports games were held in Khorog town. The winners of the youth games from the town and district schools participated in these games. As was mentioned by the representative of the committee for youth, sports and tourism of the region, Farrukh Oghonazarov, the participants competed according to seven kinds of sports, namely volleyball, track-and-field, freestyle and national wrestling, sambo and judo. The winners of the competition, 120 boys and girls of the region secured the right to take part in the republican youth games. The republican youth games will be held from 18 to 23 May 2007 in Dushanbe, the capital city of the country, Dushanbe.