Total’s annual sports tournament ‘Total Cup’ will commence today, coinciding with Qatar Sport Day, and will contain three months of exciting competitions for Total’s employees and their families. The tournament will combine eight main competitions, namely Total Olympics, tennis, football, bowling, badminton, table tennis, volleyball, and basketball with special tournaments for men, women and children.
Total Olympics will be held on Tuesday in Thumama sports ground with eight different disciplines, including walking, sprinting, tug of war, potato sack race, Frisbee target, relay and a 3000 kilometre marathon.
One of the major competitions this year will be Tennis, whose finals will take place during Qatar Total Open, the Total-sponsored world class ladies’ tennis tournament held in Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex.
Total also uses sports as a means to break all barriers as it brings people of different origins and backgrounds together, facilitating cultural integration, unity and cooperation whilst competing for a common goal.
For the Total Cup tournament, all the employees and their families will be into four teams representing the company’s colors – Navy, Red, Blue and Orange.
An awards ceremony will be held in the finale of the tournament to commemorate the the top players of each competition and to crown the overall winners of the tournament. The winning team will receive the Total Cup trophy, which will be passed on from last year’s winners, the Blue team.
Guillaume Chalmin, Managing Director of Total E&P Qatar and Group Representative said: “We are very keen to support Qatar National Sports Day through our 1st Total Cup event – Total Olympics. We will have a great diversity of participants - men, women and children of different nationalities. This is all being done in the sports spirit, and this healthy competition brings about the positive values of unity and cultural integration”.
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