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The 2006 Doha Asian Games were considered to be one of the most successful Asian Games in history. Doha was selected by an 0CA (Olympic Council of Asia) evaluation committee from a list of four cities. The other candidates were Kuala Lumpur (hosted the 1998 Commonwealth Games - It was a big favorite by the Olympic Movement), New Dehi (hosted the 1982 Asian Games) and Hong Kong.
Nasir Saleh Nasir Abdullah Al-Attiyah was elected to represent the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) as the first Global Sport Fund (GSF) Ambassador. Who is he? Nasir Saleh Al-Attiyah is one of the greatest shooters in Qatar and Asia. Sportsmen who have trained with him say he's a perfectionist. This athlete has won over 60 titles in his sporting career. He finished fourth in the men's skeet shooting competition in Athens' 2004. In 2001, he won the silver medal at the World Cup in Italy. "Mr. Al-Attiyah is an accomplished athlete in sports that require precision and dedication, where being distracted by drugs would make success impossible. He has the credentials to show young people what tremendous achievements are possible by living a healthy, drug-free lifestyle", said UNODC Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa.
Qatar will host the IAAF World Indoor Championships in 2010. It is part of a campaign to attract more major athletics events in the run up to the 2016 Olympic Games...
Like England, Germany, Italy, Australia and Greece, Qatar -it is a little bigger than Hawaii- has famous sports venues. The venues were designed and built by Europeans. Doha's sporting infrastructure includes:
Al-Rayyan Sports Club Stadium and Indoor Hall (basketball, football, handball, field hockey, volleyball)
Al Sadd Sports Club Indoor Hall (soccer, baseball, softball)
A-Arabi Sports Club Indoor Hall (soccer, Kabaddi, rugby, table tennis, fencing, weightlifting, wrestling, bodybuilding)
Al-Khor Road Course (cycling)
Qatar Bowling Center (bowling)
Qatar Sports Club Stadium and Indoor Hall (soccer, judo, karate, boxing, wushu, bodybuilding, taekwondo, sepaktakraw)
Khalifa Stadium (track & field) and Hamad Aquatic Center (diving, swimming, synchronized swimming, water polo)
Corniche (athletics, cycling, triathlon)
Doha Racing & Equestrian Club (equestrian)
Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex (tennis, squash, badminton, basque pelota)
Al-Gharrafa Sports Club Stadium and Indoor Hall (football, handball, volleyball)
Al-Duhail Shooting Range (archery, shooting)
Doha Sailing Club (sailing)
Messieed Endurance Course (equestrian)
ASPIRE Academy (badminton, boxing, chess, cycling, gymnastics, cue sports, modern pentathlon, kabaddi, kayak, wrestling, basketball, karate, judo, wushu)
West Bay Lagoo (rowing)
The 26th Asian Basketball Championship was held under the auspices of the Qatar Basketball Federation (QBF) in 2006.
Qatar Airways is the official airline of the Qatari Olympic Committee. It is one of the fastest growing airlines in the world.
This Arab country has one of the best football facilities in Asia. Serbian coach Bora Milutinovic, who worked in Qatar, once said, "The working conditions are unbelievable: we have a modern stadium with a capacity of 15,000, a good pitch as well as numerous training pitches, a gym, and an indoor hall. In other words, the Al-Sadd Sports Club is like Manchester United's Old Trafford stadium, only on a smaller scale".
The most popular sports in Qatar are soccer, equestrian, athletics, shooting, weightlifting, table tennis and handball.
Nada Zaidan (archery) was the first Muslim Arab woman to participate in the 14th Asian Games in Busan (South Korea).
The most popular football clubs are Al-Sadd, Al-Gharrafa, Al-Arabi...
Saif Saaeed Shaheen is now the Qatar's most successful athlete. He was born in 1982 as Stephen Cherono in Keiyo, Kenya (Africa). On Agust 12, 2003, he became a Qatari citizen. In a career of more than four years, he has won many international championships (1,500m, 3,000m steeplechase, 5,000m).
Doha -it become one of the world's first class cities- is the home of many sports events. Some of these tournaments are:
Doha Masters Golf
Doha Cycling Tour
Qatar Total Open Tennis Tournament for Women
World Motorcycle Championship
Doha Junior Open (table tennis)
Qatar Exxon Mobil Open for Men (tennis)
Doha Fencing Grand Prix
This Arab country has many foreign coaches: Dzemaludin Musavic (soccer / Bosnia & Herzegovina), Ekrem Jaganjac (handball / Croatia), Li Ling (archery/ China).
The Qatar Sports Club was the venue for soccer matches at the 2006 Asian Games. Refurbished in 2004, it is one of the most beautiful clubs in the world...
This Arab country sent 44 sportswomen to the Asian Games in 2006. They competed in 11 sports (archery, chess, equestrian, fencing, artistic gymnastics, golf, judo, sailing, shooting, swimming and taekwondo). "Muslim and Arab athletes will have a positive affect not only on Qatari athletes but also on sports officials and Arab societies" says the president of the Qatar Women's Sports Committee, Dr. Aneesa Al-Hitmi.
The 2005 West Asian Games took place in Doha, the capital city of Qatar. Millions of people were watching it on television. About 1,011 athletes competing in the following disciplines:athletics, basketball, bowling, diving, fencing, football, gymnastics,handball, shooting, swimming, volleyball and weightlifting.
Medal count of the West Asian Games:
Ranking........Gold......Silver......Bronze.....Total
1.Qatar...........28.........19..........20..........67
2.Kuwait.........25.........15..........16..........56
3.Syria............21.........14..........16..........51
4.Iran.............19.........26..........18..........63
5.UEA...............7.........9..............6...........22
6.Saudi Arabia...4...........9...........12..........25
7.Lebanon........4............4...........3..........11
8.Jordan..........3...........11.........11..........25
9.Bahrain.........3............2...........2............7
10.Iraq.............2.............1...........7..........10
11.Yemen.........2............1...........0...........3
12.Oman..........2............1...........0..........10
13.Palestine......0............0...........0...........0
Alejandro Guevara Onofre: He is a freelance writer. Alejandro is of Italian, African and Peruvian ancestry. He has published more than seventy-five research paper in English, and more than twenty in Spanish, concerning the world issues, olympic sports, countries, and tourism. His next essay is called "The Dictator and Alicia Alonso". He is an expert on foreign affairs. Alejandro is the first author who has published a world-book encyclopedia in Latin America.
He admires Frida Kahlo (Mexican painter), Jos Gamarra (former president of the Bolivian Olympic Committee ,1970- 1982), Hillary Clinton (ex-First Lady of the USA), and Jimmy Carter (former President of the USA). Alejandro said: "The person who I admire the most is Jos Gamarra . He devoted his professional and personal life to sport. Jos played an important role in the promotion of Olympism in Bolivia -it is one of the Third World's poorest countries- and Latin America. His biography is interesting". The sportspeople he most admire is Olympic volleyball player Flo Hyman. "This African-American sportswoman is my idol."
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