Chantelle d’Mello
QOC Sports Village
With stating from Chantelle D’mello
The fourth annual Qatar National Sport Day, directed during enlivening residents to take adult a some-more active and healthy lifestyle, will take place this Tuesday, Feb. 10.
The central holiday is held on a second Tuesday of Feb any year, and private and open organizations via Qatar put on dozens of events designed to get everyone, regardless of their age or aptness levels, off a lounge and into their trainers.
A full report of all a events can be found during sportday.qa, nonetheless a site is now usually in Arabic.
Here are some of a highlights of what’s holding place this week:
Sports Village
Qatar Olympic Committee’s Sports Village, subsequent to a categorical post bureau on a Corniche, is one of a hubs for a event.
But we don’t need to wait until Tuesday to check it out, as it is open 3pm to 10pm in a run-up to NSD, and from 8am until 10pm on a open holiday.
More than 13 inhabitant sporting federations will be represented during a village, charity giveaway activities and party for each age and aptness level.
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Sports Village
Experts will be on palm to offer tips and techniques in sports including handball, basketball, shooting, table-tennis and football. There will also be superintendence on healthy eating and ubiquitous wellness as this year’s leader of a BeFit Program is announced.
Other facilities embody archery, larger-than-life chess and checker boards, beach volleyball, bowling, fighting and a vast stadium for children.
Bathrooms and request bedrooms have also been set up. Healthy food is on sale from Lulu, a Diet Shop and other eateries. Though parking is singular directly outward a venue, choice parking is accessible in a large drift conflicting a post office.
Here’s a schedule of all a events designed in a run-up to Sport Day and a tangible day:
Aspire Zone
Along with Aspire Academy, Aspetar and Aspire Logistics, Aspire Zone will horde 12 opposite family sporting events. Full sum of all events can be found here.
The 3km Fun Run will flog off from Khalifa International Stadium during 9am and snake around Aspire Zone’s venues. Organizers wish to kick final year’s figure of some-more than 2,000 participants.
A new Family Cycling beginning will also be launched by a Minister of Youth and Sport Salah bin Ghanem bin Nasser Al Ali and Aspire Zone Foundation CEO Khalid Abdullah Al Sulaiteen, on Sport Day during 10am.
The intrigue offers four-set and two-seat bikes for all family members to cycle together around a dedicated lake path.
Aspire Zone
Aspire sports track
Meanwhile, Aspire Active’s instructors will run special fitness sessions for group and women alone on Tuesday. Women’s activities will be 8:45am to 1 pm, while men’s classes will take place during Aspire Active’s opening from 9am to 1pm.
Additionally, Qatar’s initial synchronized swimming classes will be reason during Aspire Dome swimming pool, with dual sessions. Girls aged 8 to 11 years aged can attend during 9am, and girls aged 12 to 16 years aged can uncover adult during 3pm.
There will also be a beach soccer contest during a silt representation nearby representation No. 6. Six to 8 teams of 5 players will take partial in a tournament, for males over 16 years of age. Teams peaceful to attend can go to a representation and register.
Aspire Zone
5,000 Steps Journey
Families are also invited to take partial in Aspetar’s “5000-Step Journey,” a travel of about 40 mins orderly by that will run 1 to 4pm during a Torch Hotel and finish during Aspire Dome.
The tour will go by 12 opposite points opposite Aspire Zone where participants will be given information and tips about health, correct nourishment and earthy activity.
Parents are speedy to span adult with their child for Fathers and Sons, and Mothers and Daughters events, including gymnastics competitions and racquet sports. Competitions involving mothers and daughter will take place during a gymnastics gymnasium and MS3, while those involving fathers and sons will take place during a Squash gymnasium and MS1. The activities run from 10am to 4pm.
Residents can also test running, jumping and throwing skills with a Break Your Records challenge. Held during a entertainment lane during 10 am we can try your earthy intensity by a array of exercises designed to magnitude players’ performance.
Over 12s can urge their football skills with techniques to raise sharpened accuracy, speed and aptness during a indoor football pitch, using from 10am to 4pm.
There will be 4 opposite games for young children, including a wall climbing, 8am to 3:30pm in a open immature area nearby representation No. 5.
A football contest for boys innate 2003-2007 will take place from 9am-2pm during Aspire Academy’s outside pitches No. 3, 4 and 5.
In addition, some-more than 24 opposite private and supervision organizations will reason a brew of open and employee-only events during Aspire Zone.
Museum of Islamic Art Park
Competitions, children’s shows and practice classes will be reason during a Museum of Islamic Art Park on Tuesday from 9am to 4:30pm.
Ooredoo
National Sport Day fun
The Ooredoo-sponsored section will also embody a new “snow area” where people can have snowball fights and float a sleet slide. Children’s shows “Speed portrayal with Jean Francois” and Disney’s “Wish Upon a Dream” will be reason via a day.
For a comparison crowd, there will be paintball and parkour, as good as “socializing stations” where people can take and post cinema to amicable media.
And finally, several football, shooting, land-rowing, arm wrestling and sumo wrestling tournaments will be held, as good as a family value hunt.
Doha Dash
Up to 3,200 runners are approaching to take partial in the Dolphin Energy Doha Dash during a Losail International Circuit on Tuesday.
Dolphin Energy Doha Dash
Doha Dash – 5km start
The event will underline a 5km run for over 12s, a 3km track for over 8s, a 1km children’s run and a 1km ladies’ walk. Registration is sealed for a event, though fans are acquire to attend to hearten on participants. Find more information about the event here.
The Pearl-Qatar
Numerous activities will be orderly during The Pearl-Qatar for residents, staff and visitors. A Qatar Tourism Authority-sponsored travel on Porto Arabia Boardwalk will start during 8:30am, withdrawal from 7 La Croisette and finishing during 29 La Croisette.
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Qatar Qartier Lido Beach
Beach tennis competitions will run from 10am to 4:30pm during Lido Venezia Beach in Qanat Quartier, that will be open to giveaway open registration. Participants can pointer adult to play by promulgation their names, email addresses and mobile numbers to [email protected]
Residents can also try their palm during sports including handball, volleyball, ping pong, billiards and bowling in a mosque parking lot nearby a Pearl Roundabout, from 8am to 5pm.
Katara
Katara Cultural Village will be hosting scarcely 100 events on NSD. While some are dedicated to companies, many are open to a public.
Events start from 7:30am and underline classes run by sporting organizations including Qatar Basketball Federation, Qatar Weightlifting and Bodybuilding Federation, Qatar Tennis Association and Qatar Cycling Federation. View a full report of events here or below:
Film screening
The Doha Film Institute will show the classical 1976 sports film “Rocky,” starring Sylvester Stallone as a down-and-out boxer as partial of a free, pop-up cinema events.
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Rocky
The film will be in English but Arabic subtitles and will start during 7pm during Katara’s Marina Park area, subsequent to Katara’s categorical opening during a St. Regis hotel.
Education City
Qatar Foundation is organizing a travel by Education City on a thesis “Unlock your middle athlete,” starting from Al Shaqab Equestrian Center. It goes by West Green Spine, holding in a series of sporting tournaments and will also embody interactive wheelchair basketball and special needs list tennis.
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Qatar Foundation campus
There are also dozens of aptness and sports classes on via a day, including boxercise, circuits, taekwondo, frisbee and gymnastics.
A full report of events can be found here.
Zumba classes
Residents over 12 years aged are invited to take partial in free, open Zumba classes during a Sheraton Hotel tennis courts on Tuesday.
Registration opens during 6:30pm and a category runs from 7 to 8:30pm. More details can be found online here.
What are your skeleton for NSD? Thoughts?