Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
THE Middle East’s first ‘Academy of Motorcycling’ has been launched at the Bahrain International Circuit (BIC). It is the brainchild of Harley-Davidson Bahrain, with support from Harley-Davidson Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
Novak Djokovic, the ‘Djoker’ of the tennis tour, continued his remarkable year by sealing victory in the US Open. Debate is now raging whether his latest victory allows him to lay claim to the greatest year in the modern era of tennis (since the inception of the ATP in 1972).
While we are on the subject of tennis, the US Tennis Association really need to address the level of fines levied on players that behave badly on court.
In the US Open women’s final, Serena Williams, twice abused umpire Eva Asderaki of Greece, having been given a point penalty for ‘intentional hindrance’ having screamed as eventual winner, Australian Sam Stosur, was playing a shot. While this may have been a questionable call, there can be no excusing Williams’s ranting response.
DYNAMIC Deena Abdel Rahman, who won England caps at junior level, has taken Bahraini citizenship and aims to help steer the women’s national football team to glory at the forthcoming West Asian Championship staged in Abu Dhabi next month.
The Arsenal Soccer School Ladies Seven-a-Side League is going international this season as a new squad will be travelling from Saudi Arabia each week to compete for the coveted GulfWeekly Premiership Trophy.
