But, IOC President Jacques Rogge adds in an interview with the AP, there is no "guarantee'' of reinstatement. The IOC board makes a recommendation next .... DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - RAC--Doping-UAE Law. Using steroids on race horses in Dubai is ...
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni, with the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani and his wife, Sheikha Moza bint Nasser. But Al Jazeera's surge ...
Qatar meanwhile plans to spend $200 billion on projects including roads, air-conditioned stadiums and a metro line before hosting the 2022 soccer World Cup. The retreat might ...
Landed the 2022 World Cup of Soccer with a pledge to build $4-billion worth of stadiums with outdoor air conditioning in 48C summer heat. Last year, Qatar bought the athletes' village at the ...
The Asian Football Confederation, of which Guam is a part, held its Beach Soccer World Cup qualifiers in January of this year, with Iran, Japan and United Arab Emirates securing AFC's three spots. GFA President Richard Lai is currently the AFC Futsal ...
A few weeks later Shaikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs, bought City and nothing much has been the same since he began ploughing his wealth into the former serial under-achievers. Article ...
The sports club's president is United Arab Emirates Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan. GSSG, named for its chairman Ghanim Bin Saad, the CEO of state-owned Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Co., ...
United Arab Emirates soccer chief Yousuf Al Serkal, Saudi Arabian Hafez Al Medlej, Thailand's Worawi Makudi and Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al-Khalifa of Bahrain are running to succeed disgraced former president Mohamed Bin Hammam, banned from football ...
Instead, especially in Saudi Arabia, attendance at live matches is falling, soccer stadiums are in disrepair, and the national team won only one game in this year's Gulf Cup—a debacle that led to the ouster of Dutch legend Frank Riijkaard as the Saudi ...
In staying away, fans are demonstrating that stadiums in the smaller Gulf states where local nationals account for at most some 40 percent of the population -- in the United Arab Emirates that number drops to 15 and in Qatar to just over 20 percent ...