Category: SPORTS
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2016 a bright year for Egypt’s gymnasts
This year, Sherine El-Zeiny won gold at the African Gymnastics Championships in the women’s individual all-around competitions. She is part of the national team. At the same tournament, the national girls’ gymnastics team won in the junior teams’ division. In the juniors’ individual all-around competitions, Farah Ahmed and Farah Said won gold and bronze, respectively.…
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Egypt’s route to the African Cup can take them to the World Cup
Somehow a major disaster was avoided, as fans climbed on to floodlight towers and nearby pylons to catch a view of the match. Such security failings made headlines around the world, but the result was also an important one for the Egyptian national team. The 1-1 draw kept them in control at the top of…
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Egypt shows interest in hosting 2020 FIFA Futsal World Cup
Egypt is among a list of a record 13 countries from five Confederations that bid to host the tournament, due to take place in four years. The full list of countries include Egypt, Croatia, Czech Republic, Costa Rica, Iran, Japan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Netherlands and New Zealand. The…
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Marathon journey of Rio 2016 flame includes Rio Bridge in Greece
This year, these have been designed by London born Greek-Cypriot designer Eleni Kyriacou, who trained under Alexander McQueen. They are accompanied by specially designed sandals and will be used at the flame lighting ceremony in Olympia and at the send off festivities in Athens. The relay to Rio also marks 80 years since runners carried a flame…