Olympic

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.

We on QL talk so much about Qatar's Olympic aspirations and get polarized about the chances based on - How we feel. This is not going to help any cause. Let's get together and analyse where Qatar Stands vis-a-vis others and try and recommend something fruitful to the authorities. There are a lot of technicalities in the bid preparation process and the criteria that are set out for finalizing the host.

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TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama pledged Thursday to do his utmost to bring the Olympics to Tokyo in 2016 as he prepared to go to Copenhagen for the big vote.
"As long as I go, I want to win," Hatoyama told a group of reporters before heading for Tokyo's Haneda Airport. "If our rivals are moving ahead of us, we'll cruise to the top from behind."

Tokyo is vying with Chicago, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro to host the Summer Games in 2016. The International Olympic Committee will vote Friday to choose the site, with millions of dollars in construction, tourist revenues and sponsorships at stake.

Woohoo, what a show! I realised that you need not know the language of a song to love a music show as much as I did today. Music truly transcends barriers.

When this building was designed, perhapse it was for a climate where you only need to clean the windows once a year.

Now this building is in Doha, a very dusty place.

The poor window cleaner was asked to go ahead and try, it was a very funny sight, as far as I am concerned.

I share this picture, this a new building next to the Qatar Olympic Cmte.

Qatar Olympic Committee invites you to participate in the electronic games (PS3) during the period from 05 to 10 September and forms are available

Games: Fifa2009 - NBA2008 - Most Wanted - Counter Strek1.6

Registration on Saturday in the Olympic Committee's building - ground floor

For any questions, 4944890 to 3025677

Silent :)