Category: Games

Minister of Youth and Sports Ashraf Sobhi said President Abdel Fattah El Sisi pays great attention to young people and the development of education and scientific research systems.

 

 

Sobhi made the remarks during his participation in a scientific competition held by the Helwan University’s Faculty of Engineering that kicked off on Tuesday 8/3/2022 and lasts for a week.

The sports minister highly commended innovations by Egyptian university students in different scientific fields.

Sobhi pointed to the fruitful cooperation between his ministry, the Higher Education and Scientific Research Ministry and various universities to provide scientific activities for supporting young innovators.

On his part, Acting President of Helwan University Mamdouh Mahdi said the university works to encourage scientific innovation by students and develop their scientific capabilities, as part of the State’s efforts to qualify youth.

 

Source: State Information Service Egypt

Egypt’s Shimaa Samy has collected two medals at 2022 Spanish Para-Badminton International I, concluded Sunday in Vitoria-Gasteiz.

 

She will leave later for Cartagena to compete in the Spanish Para-Badminton International II.

 

Source: State Information Service Egypt

Minister of Youth and Sports Ashraf Sobhi has congratulated modern pentathlon player Salma Ayman on winning the gold medal at the Hungarian Indoor Open Championships that were held in Budapest from February 18 to 24.

 

The minister also expressed thanks, appreciation and gratitude to Egyptian Ambassador to Hungary Mohamed el Shenawy and all embassy staffers for receiving the Egyptian modern pentathlon team and removing all obstacles facing them.

 

The medals ceremony was attended by the ambassador and all staffers of the Egyptian Embassy in Hungary, which reflects the importance attached by the Egyptian State to sport and players in all sports.

 

Source: State Information Service Egypt

Manama, The Syrian team for special sports obtained on Thursday two new medals, one gold and the other is silver within the West Asian Paralympic Games currently held in Bahrain.

Khalil Mahmoud won the gold medal in the discus throwing, while Abdel Rahman Hamroush won the silver discus game as well in the F57 category.

Earlier, Syrian players Azzam al-Ahmad and Abdel-Rahman Hamroush gained two silver medals.

Source: Syrian Arab News Agency

Manama,Syrian national basketball team beat its Bahraini counterpart by 80/64 within the second window of the World Cup qualifiers in a match that brought them together on Thursday in the Bahraini capital of Manama.

The Syrian team advanced in the first quarter by 19/7 points and finished the second quarter and the first half of the match with 20 points difference.

The team has lost to Kazakhstan when the two teams played in the Kazakh capital of Nur-Sultan by 74-84.

Source: Syrian Arab News Agency

Abu Dhabi Syrian Basketball national team beat Emirati Sharjah by 70/ 65 points in the second friendly match that brought them together at the hall of Sharjah Sports Club in preparation for World Cub Qualifiers.

 

The Syrian team lost its first friendly match with the same team by 66/73 points.

 

The team finished its external camp in the UAE and it will leave tomorrow to Manama to meet the Bahraini counterpart on next Thursday.

 

Source: Syrian Arab News Agency

Yanqing, China, In a sport dominated by Europeans and North Americans, the Olympic Alpine giant slalom has a way of attracting competitors known on the ski circuit as “the exotics”, from countries with little or no winter sports tradition.

 

Violinist Vanessa-Mae was one well-known example, competing for Thailand at the 2014 Sochi Games where she finished 67th.

 

This year, skiers representing Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, Timor Leste, India, Mexico, Jamaica, Ghana, Puerto Rico, Eritrea, Madagascar and Israel all signed up for the Olympic giant slalom, Reuters reports.

 

While some openly admitted their aim was to widen diversity or to simply soak up the atmosphere of the Olympics, others had come because they wanted to compete.

 

“It was clear that I go for gas rather than being safe. I always want to go as fast as possible. For me, just coming down, that’s not an option; that’s not my DNA,” said Ghana’s 43-year-old Carlos Maeder, one of 33 skiers who failed to finish the first leg of Sunday’s men’s giant slalom.

 

Maeder, who was adopted by a couple in Switzerland and said he could ski before he could walk, embraces the term “exotics”. “Ghana doesn’t stop at the borders,” he added.

 

Scholarships and personal wealth can help with paying for the training and travel needed to qualify for the Olympics. Some racers put the cost of preparing for the Games at around $70,000.

 

“I’m still a one-man show. I’ve never had like a federation in the back or like a personal coach so it was a lot of work,” Maeder said.

Fayik Abdi, Saudi Arabia’s first Winter Olympian, learned to ski at the age of four on holidays in Lebanon, but started racing less than a year ago. He said he was indifferent about being labelled one of the “exotics”.

 

“It is odd but it is also accurate to what we are to the sport,” said Abdi, who came 44th of the 46th finishers. “We need to start breeding kids and the next generation from a super young age.”

 

Abdi, who has lived in Saudi Arabia, the United States and Europe, said that even if he had not finished but had skied his best, that would been satisfying enough.

 

“The more diverse the sport or any sport can be, the better. This is the beginning not just for Saudi Arabia but for many nations and hopefully in the future we’ll see more countries and teams contending,” Abdi said.

 

Thailand’s Nicola Zanon, who finished in 38th place, 29.01 seconds after giant slalom winner Marco Odermatt of Switzerland, acknowledged there was still a lot of work to do for nations like his to rise in the rankings, but that finishing was an important signal.

“I did a safe run because my federation wants to complete the race, that’s our goal,” he said.

 

Mexico’s Rodolfo Dickson Sommers, who finished 35th, said a lot of the “exotics” — a term he felt correctly identified them as unique in the sport — could technically go faster than they often did in races.

 

“It’s nice going through the finish,” he laughed.

 

On the other side of the fence, giant slalom gold medallist Odermatt had a message of encouragement for his competitors from more tropical climes.

 

“It’s probably not so easy if you don’t have snow around but in the end, if you have a dream, you just have to work for it, try everything and take what you get and try your best in each situation,” Odermatt said.

 

Source: Bahrain News Agency

Sports and Youth Minister Ashraf Sobhi said Monday Egypt is keen to encourage investing in the sector of sports to increase financial solvency for sporting activities.

 

He told Sky News channel that there is an urgent need to amend sports-related laws in terms of the comprehensive quantum leap achieved in the sports sector under the new republic.

 

Such amendments are necessary under the wise vision of President Abdel Fattah El Sisi that aims to remove all obstacles and encourage safe investments in all fields, the minister added.

 

The Senate’s committee of youth and sports held a meeting on Sunday in the presence of the minister to debate a government-proposed bill on amending some articles of sports law No. 71 of 2017.

 

Source: State Information Service Egypt

Minister of Youth and Sports Ashraf Sobhi on Sunday received Al Ahly football team mission at Cairo International Airport coming from the UAE.

 

Al Ahly won the FIFA Club World Cup bronze medal for a second straight year after crushing Al Hilal of Saudi Arabia 4-0.

 

The Cairo giants won the bronze medal for a third time in their history, having also finished third in 2006 and 2021, after producing a ruthless attacking display against the Asian champions in Abu Dhabi.

 

Source: State Information Service Egypt

Minister of Youth and Sports Ashraf Sobhy asserted his trust that the Egyptian Shooting Federation (ESF), in cooperation with the ministry, would be able to organize the World Cup for Rifle, Pistol and Shotgun (ISSF World Cup) at the highest level.

 

This came during Sobhy’s a meeting with head of the Egyptian Shooting Federation Hazem Hosny to stand on the details of Egypt’s hosting of the ISSF World Cup due on February 26.

 

The event will run till March 8 with the participation of 67 countries.

 

Source: State Information Service Egypt

Youth and Sports Minister Ashraf Sobhi headed on Sunday to Yaounde to attend the football match between the Egyptian national team and Senegal in the African Cup of Nations’ finals.

In press statements, he expressed confidence in the national team’s outstanding performance that will enable it to win.

Egypt was qualified to the finals after beating Cameroon.

 

Source: State Information Service Egypt