Doha, Qatar, June 23, 2022: The Qatar Olympic Committee celebrated Olympic Day 2022 on June 23 with a community event at the 3-2-1 Qatar Olympic and Sports Museum in Doha.
Team Qatar stars Ashraf Amgad El-Seify, Abdulla Al-Tamimi and Mubaraka Al Nuaimi attended Thursday’s memorable Olympic event, which also saw wide-scale participation from Schools Olympic Program students and Athlete Development Pathway (Be An Athlete).
The QOC organised a number of tours and activities to shed light on the museum, to showcase the history of sports worldwide, the history of the Olympic Games, Qatar’s most prominent sport events and top influencing athletes in the world.
The Olympic Day activities were the latest in the QOC’s commitment to promoting sports, physical activities and the Olympic values across the country, as per the Olympic charter.
The QOC has set up a number of initiatives and community programs that target both genders equally and engage different age groups, with a focus on younger age groups: school students and kindergartens. These include:
Schools Olympic Program: The SOP was founded in 2007 as a legacy from the Doha 2006 Asian Games. The SOP is a pioneering, grassroots initiative that came in response to the prestigious initiative of HH Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, who was in that period the President of the Qatar Olympic Committee. The program is jointly organized by the QOC and the Ministry of Education and Higher Education. It has grown from 7,099 participants in its inaugural season to 26,454 students from 461 schools in 14 sports participating in the last school year.
Athlete Development Pathway: The ADP model seeks to produce a new generation of Qatari sporting champions. ADP is the outcome of a three-year project led by the QOC in partnership with Aspire Academy. The framework includes 39 sport specific models, each tailored to enable optimum development within different sports and disciplines, including para-sport and women in sport.
