Athletic

DUBAI, H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of Dubai Executive Council, has issued Resolution No. 02 of 2020 on the governance of sports clubs in Dubai.The Resolution aims to ensure sports clubs in D…

ABU DHABI, The 2020 UCI WorldTour gets underway with the Tour Down Under in less than a week’s time. The UAE Team Emirates riders will face just over 900km of racing and more than 12,000km of climbing.Key general classification stages include stage 2 t…

ABU DHABI, The UAE Jiu-Jitsu Federation, UAEJJF, has announced the postponement of the Dubai International Professional Jiu-Jitsu Championship (No-Gi Jiu-Jitsu) due to inclement weather conditions.According to a press release issued on Wednesday by the…

Dubai, Sahar Al Obad, the first female President of the UAE Athletics Federation, stressed that it was normal to see a woman heading the federation of the athletics, highly perceived as a male-dominated sport. “For me, becoming the first woman to head …

Bischofshofen, Dawid Kubacki of Poland wins the prestigious Four Hills ski-jumping tournament for the first time.Kubacki had jumps of 143 and 140.5 metres to claim the fourth and last stage in Bischofshofen, Austria and top the overall tour standings a…

Manama, HM the King’s Representative for Charity Work and Youth Affairs, National Security Advisor and Chairman of the Supreme Council for Youth and Sport, HH Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, has announced the allocation of BD 1 million for national…

DUBAI, H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Chairman of Dubai Executive Council, and Chairman of Dubai Sports Council, has said that the emirate pays special attention to its sports sector.This attention, he exp…

Buenos Aires, Former Bolivian President Evo Morales has flown to Argentina, where the new center-left government said Thursday that it had granted him political asylum.I’ve come to Argentina to keep fighting for the most humble people, Morales said on …

ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – Russia’s challenge to NATO and democratic nations, as well as Iran’s influence on the wider Middle East, remain two of the top threats to world peace, two former White House advisers to presidents Barack Obama and Dona…

London, Arsenal ended a run of nine matches without victory as they won 3-1 at West Ham on Monday to move into the top half of the Premier League table.The victory was Freddie Ljungberg’s first as caretaker manager and lifted Arsenal up to ninth while …

Manama, International Marathon Swimmer Chloe McCardel, has arrived to Bahrain to participate in IRONMAN 70.3, with marathon legends Mo Farah and Mark Cavendish.”I’m humbled to be invited to be part of the legends celebrity triathlon team as a part of t…