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    Scenes From the 2025 World Games in Chengdu

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    Scenes From the 2025 World Games in Chengdu

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    Italy’s team competes in the mixed aerobic group final during the 2025 World Games at the Dong’an Lake Sports Park Multi-Function Gymnasium in Chengdu, in China’s Sichuan province, on August 15, 2025.
    About 10 racers wearing in-line roller blades sprinted toward the camera during a match.
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    Taiwan’s Chang Yu-Hsin (center) competes in the women’s 15,000-meter speed-skating-road elimination final during the 2025 World Games at Shuyue Park in Chengdu on August 13, 2025.
    An athlete wearing a helmet while sitting in a canoe in a swimming pool leans back to throw a ball while being defended against by other others with paddles.
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    Jan Erik Haack of Team Italy controls the ball in the men’s canoe-polo gold-medal match between Germany and Italy at the Jianyang Cultural and Sports Center Natatorium in Chengdu on August 16, 2025.
    A pair of dancers, seen during a dance competition
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    Romania’s Andra Pacurar (left) and Ionut Alexandru Miculescu compete in the couple’s Latin-dance final at the Chengbei Gymnasium on August 8, 2025.
    Four people wearing helmets race toward the camera on small motorized boards on a lake.
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    China’s Zhang Maozhu (front) competes in the men’s powerboating motosurf heat during the 2025 World Games at the Sancha Lake Ma’anshan Arena on August 16, 2025.
    Two people sit side-by-side, one wearing a complicated looking headset and using a remote control, during a drone race.
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    Li Tianxing of China competes in the drone-racing mixed-qualification round on day eight of the 2025 World Games at Dong’an Lake Sports Park Athletics Field on August 14, 2025. During the races, pilots wear FPV (first-person view) goggles to control their drones from a cockpit-like perspective. They must complete three laps of a 500-meter course within three minutes, navigating more than 40 obstacles, such as single gates, double-decker gates, cross gates, and slalom gates.
    An athlete jumps to hit a ball over a net during a game.
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    Gabriel Petry Heck, of Brazil, competes during the men’s fistball gold-medal match between Brazil and Germany on August 13, 2025.
    Four gymnasts pose, forming a human tower, balancing on each other's heads and shoulders.
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    Ukraine’s team competes in the men’s acrobatic group-qualification match at the Dong’an Lake Sports Park Multi-Function Gymnasium in Chengdu.
    Several people strain, leaning back and pulling a rope during a tug-of-war in a muddy and grassy field.
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    Team Taiwan competes against Team Switzerland (not pictured) in the women’s outdoor 500-kilogram tug-of-war gold-medal match on a rainy day at the Dong’an Lake Sports Park Central Square.
    A person throws a disc toward a pole lined with chains during a disc golf competition.
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    Marissa Gannon of Team USA competes during the mixed-doubles final of the disc-golf event on August 10, 2025.
    Two gymnasts holding pom-poms, seen smiling broadly during a competition.
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    Allison Hoeft and Sydney Martin of Team USA perform during the cheerleading pom doubles final at the Dong’an Lake Sports Park Multi-Function Gymnasium on August 16, 2025.
    A breakdancing competitor spins on their head with arms outstretched.
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    China’s Royal performs during the B-girls’ gold-medal breakdance match in Chengbei Gymnasium on August 17, 2025.
    A martial artist crouches while holding a sword during a competition.
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    Lu Zhuoling of China competes during the women’s wushu taijiquan-taijijian final event at the 2025 World Games.
    One competitor tries to block another during an ultimate flying disc match.
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    Marques Brownlee (front) of Team USA vies with Mao Quan of Team China during the ultimate-flying-disc mixed-preliminary-round group-A game on August 14, 2025.
    An elevated view of competitive dancers during a performance
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    Alexey Glukhov and Anastasia Glazunova of Moldova compete during the standard finals of the DanceSport event in Chengdu on August 9, 2025.
    A scene from a flag football match—a competitor reaches out to grab a flag from a member of the opposing team carrying a football.
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    Players in action, seen during the flag-football match between Team China and Team USA on day nine of the 2025 World Games, at Chengdu No. 7 High School Eastern Campus Athletics Field on August 15, 2025
    Two athletes leap and climb across an obstacle course during a parkour competition.
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    Bulgaria’s Kseniya Momchilova and Argentina’s Sara Banchoff Tzancoff compete in a women’s parkour speed qualification run at Xinglong Lake Hubin Arena on August 12, 2025.
    A group of Belgian athletes pose for fun with a large panda mascot.
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    Members of the delegation from Belgium pose with the mascot “Shubao” during the closing ceremony of the 2025 World Games on August 17, 2025.

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