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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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.
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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) [...]
