Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
FORMER Pakistani Olympic stars will set foot on Bahraini soil when they step on to the turf at the forthcoming Bahrain Open Hockey 7s tournament to be staged at St Christopher’s Junior School in Saar on Friday.
Unsurprisingly with London 2012 just around the corner and the competition for places hotting up, the Olympics has been in the spotlight again this week.
However it was the ambient summer temperature in the Middle East that was the focus as the IOC rejected Qatar’s bid to host the 2020 Games.
A SQUAD of four schoolboy soccer aces representing Bahrain in an international tournament in the UK powered its way into the quarter-finals before being beaten by the team who went on to lift the trophy.
Red Bull technical boss Adrian Newey defended the design of his team’s race-winning car after Australian Mark Webber’s triumph in Sunday’s Monaco Grand Prix saying the alteration had been cleared in Bahrain.
Another revelation this week involved Toni Minichiello, the long-serving coach of Jessica Ennis, Britain’s leading all-round athlete and pin-up girl for London 2012.
