Doha:

The Qatar Olympic Academy last concluded last week the training course for Train the Trainer of Olympic Values with the accreditation of the IOC Olympic Values Education Program, which was held over a four-day period divided between theoretical lectures and practicality.

Nearly 20 studies from within and outside Qatar from various disciplines, studies and positions participated in this session, for example, the leader of our national team and former Al Gharafa club captain Captain Saad al-Shammari, as well as Jassim Mohammed, the current star of al-Ahli Club and other national players and coaches, attended this session by a number of Gulf personalities such as H.E. Engineer Azza Bint Suleiman Al Malik, Assistant Secretary General of the National Olympic Committee. UAE, in addition to Captain Talal Bilal al-Saleh, coach of the Arab Women's Basketball Club, Saudi media player Ahmed Al Salami and others, who enriched the content of the course from their field and practical experiences and provided a lot for the content of the course.

The course aims to prepare and refine learners to be eligible to present lectures and seminars on Olympic values, which are one of the most important pillars of the Qatari Olympic Academy calendar.

Through this course, the Academy achieves one of its most important objectives, which is to spread Olympic and sports culture in Qatari society in particular and the region in general by refining these students to spread Olympic culture.

The course was presented by Professor Hisham Al Adwani, Vice President of the Omani Federation of School Sports, Director of the International Olympic Committee's Diploma of Sports Management Program. He is an international lecturer in sports management science at the International Olympic Committee.

Captain Mohamed Omar, swimming coach at Al Khor Sports Club, a graduate of the Qatar Olympic Academy in the Diploma of Management program for the advancement of sports and Olympic institutions and recently a master of sports management from the International Olympic Committee, and Professor Hasna Bouhaqb of the Qatar Olympic Academy, also helped him to present lectures and present practical skills for olympic values during the days of the session.

The session dealt with many axes over the course of the four, where the lecturers reviewed the beginning of a historical account of the emergence of the ancient Olympic Games in Greece and its ancient and large history, and then moved to talk about the modern Olympic Games and what Baron Pierre de Coubertin presented  during the founding stage of the modern Olympic Games, and then touched on the three main Olympic values (excellence, friendship and respect) and the principles of the Olympic movement, and that educational values and their relationship to Olympic values in terms of concept, meaning and purpose.

On the third day, models of applications of cognitive activities were presented to spread the olympic values and principles of the student in the physical education class and training session, and the course dealt with how to include Olympic values in the plan to build the sports education lesson or training course according to the different age stages, as well as introduce the students to learn about the methods and types of motivation of young people to practice sports activities.

On the closing day, Captain Saad al-Shammari reviewed the flame of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, which he had floated on behalf of Middle Eastern athletes ahead of the Olympic games at the time.