The Organising Committee of the Schools Olympic Programme (SOP) announced that the opening ceremony of the seventh edition will be staged on Wednesday, September 25.
The sports competitions will begin on Monday, September 30 and the closing ceremony of the girls competitions will be held on Thursday, April 3, 2014 while the boys competitions will come to an end on Friday, April 4, 2014.
The Organising Committee will meet teachers of participating schools on June 19 to brief them about registration procedures for the seventh edition. Registration for team sports will start on June 19 and end on September 19.
Registration for individual sports will open 45 days prior to each event and close a week before the start of the competition. The draw for boys’ and girls’ competitions will be conducted on September 22.
Earlier this month, Qatar Olympic Committee and the SOP Organising Committee announced that they would organise the seventh edition of SOP under the theme “Sports and Integrity”, in cooperation with their regular partners, the Supreme Education Council, Qatar School Sport Association and Qatar Paralympic Committee. The International Centre for Sport Security will be a strategic partner for this edition.
The QOC and the SOP Organising Committee also revealed that shooting had been included in SOP as a new discipline. With this, the total number of SOP sports events has increased to 11, including volleyball, basketball, football, handball, athletics, tennis, gymnastics, swimming, fencing, table tennis and shooting.
The Peninsula
