Sports in Qatar

What has happened to these two nations in just three days?

Foreign ministers of both countries accusing the other as traitorous, both governments calling the other side's ambassador to claim against, and people from each country attacking companies and the embassy of the other's?

Right now, I wish if neither team qualified!

Are they out of their minds? Is a football match worth all of this? Come on people... have some sense...!

Ireland was disqualified by a goal scored by the French which should have been disallowed for off-side plus a double hand-ball by Henry... and what did the Irish do about it?

You have to admire even love the Irish after the match congratulating the other side, shaking hands and even hugging the French. They even hugged Terry Henry!

Arriving in Doha in February and trying to find out if there are any Judo clubs there.

Hi all..

I am new to Qatar Living as i am set to move out there in jan 10 with my family from uk.

I was wondering, as a distance runner if there are any good running routes or availability to run safely outdoors. We will be based about 20 mins outside Doha at the military training base.

thank you for any response

Stu

Yesterday night at around 8:30, there was a match between Rompe Redes F.C. and the College of the North Atlantic in the latter's campus. The fact that the CoNA's team was hosting a football match seemed like a wonderful moment since it was providing a medium to show everyone that football (soccer to others) was still a gentleman's game.

What a disappointment!

As a Barcelona fan, I naturally like Terry Henry, but yesterday, I was heartbroken when I saw how a brave, courageous, active and heroic Ireland team beat the crap out of the French chickens (not cocks) yet got eliminated by the cheating hand of Henry!

Ireland with plenty of chances to have sealed qualification to South Africa, had to exit the stage with a shameful double hand ball from the french attacker, questioning the FAIR PLAY slogan that FIFA shows in every match played internationally.

An additional two referees in each game?
Why wait until the next European under-21 championship?
When will teams like Ireland feel that they were justifiably eliminated?

i would like to say a BIG THANK YOU to Graham, Vinny and Marshy (all UK expatriates) for there friendship, hospitality that was show to us whilst visiting Doha for the england/brazil match.

you guy are the real deal, keep the ENGLISH FLAG FLYING !!!!

cheers

john and Gary "taffy"

All the syrian have went out in the street to celebrate the algerian victory, come here in almazza near the university, hundered of thousands going out and shouting ALGERIA ALGERIA ,,,,, i LOVE YOU ALGERIA

What is this fish I caught a few weeks ago??

Cheers

T

Bahrain's Olympic 1500m champion Rashid Ramzi has been stripped of his gold medal after testing positive for doping at the 2008 Beijing Games.

Ramzi, who was his country's first Olympic champion, was one of five athletes who tested positive in April for new blood-booster Cera.

The 29-year-old faces a two-year ban but is expected to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Kenya's Asbel Kipruto Kiprop, who came second, is set to be upgraded to gold.

Nicolas Willis of New Zealand could go from bronze to silver with France's fourth-place finisher Mehdi Baala getting the bronze.

The excitement is beginning to build in Qatar, as officials and drivers from the United States of America arrive in Doha to make their final preparations for this weekend’s Oryx Cup UIM World Championship, the final round of the ABRA Unlimited Hydroplane World Championship and the first event of its kind to be staged outside the Americas.
Ten of the world’s most exciting racing boats arrived in Qatar just under two weeks ago and now sit centre stage on the Corniche, near the Doha Sheraton, as the countdown begins to the first Unlimited test session on the Doha Bay course from 9.30hrs on Thursday morning and the two days of frenetic Unlimited heat action on Friday and Saturday, which culminates with the Oryx Cup UIM World Championship at 4pm on Saturday.