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Ruqaya ends glittering career
Golden Girl Ruqaya Al Ghasra stunned the Bahrain sports world last night after announcing her retirement from competitive athletics.
The 27-year-old multi-titled sprinter revealed the sad and unexpected news in front of a handful of shocked media members in a conference held at the National Stadium in Riffa.
Ruqaya said that concern for her overall health was [...]
Bahrain beats Uzbekistan in World Cup qualifier
Bahrain reached the Asian playoff in the 2010 World Cup qualifying competition after a second-half goal from Mahmood Abdulrahman earned his side a 1-0 victory over Uzbekistan on Wednesday in their final Group A match.
Abdulrahman scored with a superb free kick in the 74th minute.
The victory ensured Bahrain’s third-place finish in its five-team group and [...]
Drive-through citizenship taints Olympics
Drop this whole antiquated concept of athletes representing their country for reasons of pride, patriotism and all that other stuff that gets forgotten the other three years and 348 days between Games.
Full StoryShe did it, wearing hijab head covering
It was hard to miss Roqaya Al-Gassra racing around the Bird’s Nest track this week. The Bahraini sprinter qualified for the 200m semifinal in 22.76 sec, beating Muriel Hurtis-Houairi of France and Sri Lanka’s Susanthika Jayasinghe and she did it wearing traditional hijab head covering.
Full StoryVeiled athletes challenge stereotypes in Beijing
The women in ’s home town in Bahrain are so proud of their pioneering Olympic sprinter that some of them got together to design and sew a set of tailor-made aerodynamic veils for her to run in.
Full StoryBahrain aim for Olympic glory
Bahrain’s track stars are ready to live up to the pressure and win the kingdom’s first-ever Olympic medal in Beijing next month, the national athletics chief says. “We have never won an Olympic medal, but this time we have some of the world’s best athletes; we expect them to win, just as how they expect [...]
Full StoryAustralia loses first F1 race to Bahrain
By Miles Evans
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – The Australian Grand Prix has lost its place as the first race on the Formula One calendar to Bahrain, organisers of the Albert Park event said on Monday.
The Australian Grand Prix Corporation (AGPC) announced that the March 16 event in Melbourne would be the second race on the 2008 calendar [...]
Bahrain keep Asian Cup hopes alive with surprise victory over S Korea
Ismaeel Abdullatif scored a late and undeserved winner as Bahrain kicked life into their Asian Cup hopes with a 2-1 group D victory over South Korea on Sunday.
Bahrain had shockingly lost their opener againist co-hosts Indonesia but this win saw them move back into quarter-final contention and left Korea rock bottom with a solitary point [...]
Bahrain firm to build Abu Dhabi F1 circuit
Aldar Properties has awarded Bahrain-based construction firm Cebarco-WCT a $350 million contract to build Abu Dhabi’s F1 circuit.
The deal was announced on Monday by Cebarco-WCT’s Malaysian parent company WCT Engineering in a statement to the Bursa Malaysia.
The racetrack will be situated on the southern side of Yas Island and is expected to complete by the [...]
Riots ‘orchestrated’
Police are hunting agitators believed to be behind a series of violent demonstrations in Bahrain. Authorities are convinced that the violence is being ‘orchestrated’, says a top official. “We are sure they (the rioters) cannot be acting on their own, but it is a matter of investigation to find out exactly who they (the instigators) [...]
Full StoryBahrain test miss costs Williams
Williams have blamed their decision not to test at the Sakhir circuit during winter testing for their failure to break into the top eight and score points in the Bahrain Grand Prix on Sunday.
Sunday’s race was fruitless for the Grove-based outfit as neither Williams driver – namely Nico Rosberg or Alex Wurz managed to make [...]
F1 quick facts
That each of the 11 teams in Bahrain has brought in up to 40 tonnes of equipment. Of this, 30 tonnes consist of mechanical needs such as three chassis, the engines, spare parts, tools, wheels and pit equipment.
That there are nearly 180 large computers and 300 laptops in use among the 11 teams, supplied by [...]
Bahrain deny lifting ban on Kenyan athlete
BAHRAIN Athletic Association officials last night denied claims that the ban on Kenyan-born Bahraini athlete Musher Salem Jawher has been revoked.
Bahrain banned Jawher earlier this month after the athlete took part in a marathon event in Israel.
But an AFP report on Saturday from Nairobi, which was carried in these columns, said that Jawher ‘was accepted [...]
Bahrain welcome back banned athlete
NAIROBI: Bahrain has reversed its decision to revoke the citizenship of a Kenya-born athlete three weeks after stripping him of his passport for taking part in a marathon in Israel, an official said yesterday.
Musher Salem Jawher was accepted back into the fold after he apologised to the government in Manama, which does not recognise [...]
Everest alert
It has been over two weeks since two Bahraini adventurers attempting to scale the world’s highest peak have been heard from.Adnan Al Qassab and Faraj Al Qassimi, who began scaling the 28,028ft Mount Everest on April 2, are unable to use their satellite phones because the Thuraya network is not working following a communications clamp [...]
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