شهد تكريم عدد من الشخصيات والجهات.. اتحـــــــاد الشـــــرطة يحــــتف…

أقام الاتحاد الرياضي القطري للشرطة برئاسة سعادة اللواء خالد بن حمد العطية، رئيس الاتحاد الرياضي القطري والعربي للشرطة حفل تكريم لشركاء النجاح، من الجهات الحكومية والشركات الداعمة، إلى جانب إدارة التحكيم بالاتحاد القطري لكرة القدم، تقديراً لدورهم البارز وتعاونهم المستمر في دعم أنشطة الاتحاد وبطولاته خلال الموسم الرياضي المنصرم، في احتفالية مميزة حضر التكريم، العقيد أحمد بن حمد آل ثاني نائب رئيس الاتحاد الرياضي القطري للشرطة، وعدد من المسؤولين وممثلي الجهات والمؤسسات الداعمة، ووسائل الإعلام المختلفة.
وشهد الحفل تكريم عدد من الشخصيات والجهات التي أسهمت في إنجاح برامج وفعاليات الاتحاد عرفانا بالدور البارز والاسهامات المميزة التي بذلتها تعزيزا لانشطة الاتحاد،كما شمل التكريم لجنة الحكام بالاتحاد القطري لكرة القدم،حيث تم تكريم هاني طالب بلان رئيس لجنة الحكام، إلى جانب الملازم أول عبدالرحمن الجاسم، والملازم محمد الشمري، والملازم زاهي الشمري، والملازم يوسف الشمري، و سلمان فلاحي.أكد سعادة اللواء خالد بن حمد العطية، أن هذا التكريم يأتي تقديرا لكل الجهات والمؤسسات التي ساهمت في دعم مسيرة الاتحاد وبرامجه الرياضية، مشيداً بحجم التعاون المثمر الذي يجمع الاتحاد بشركائه من الجهات الحكومية والقطاع الخاص. وقال: نفخر بالشراكات الفاعلة التي أسهمت في نجاح بطولات وأنشطة الاتحاد خلال الموسم الماضي، وهو ما يعكس روح التعاون والمسؤولية المشتركة في دعم الرياضة الشرطية وتعزيز رسالتها المجتمعية والرياضية
و أكد العقيد أحمد بن حمد آل ثاني، أن حفل التكريم يجسد نهج الاتحاد في تقدير الشركاء والداعمين الذين كان لهم دور فاعل في نجاح الموسم الرياضي، مشيراً إلى أن التعاون المثمر مع الجهات الحكومية ومؤسسات القطاع الخاص أسهم في الارتقاء بمستوى البطولات والفعاليات. وثمّن الرائد عبدالله خميس الحمد، أمين السر العام للاتحاد الرياضي القطري للشرطة، الدعم المتواصل الذي تحظى به أنشطة الاتحاد من مختلف الجهات والمؤسسات، مؤكداً أن هذا التعاون كان له أثر كبير في نجاح الموسم الرياضي وتحقيق العديد من المكاسب التنظيمية والفنية ونحن نحرص في الاتحاد الرياضي القطري للشرطة على بناء شراكات استراتيجية مستدامة مع مختلف المؤسسات والجهات الداعمة
وأشاد محمد سالم الكواري، عضو مجلس إدارة الاتحاد الرياضي القطري للشرطة، بالمستوى المتميز للتعاون القائم بين الاتحاد ومختلف الجهات الداعمة، مؤكداً أن هذا الدعم كان له أثر واضح في نجاح البطولات والأنشطة الرياضية التي نظمها الاتحاد على مدار الموسم كما أشاد هاني طالب بلان، رئيس لجنة الحكام بالاتحاد القطري لكرة القدم، باللفتة المميزة من الاتحاد الرياضي القطري للشرطة وحرصه على تكريم إدارة التحكيم والحكام، في ظل التعاون المثمر بين الجانبين لإنجاح أنشطة الاتحاد طوال الموسم، مؤكداً أن هذه المبادرة تعكس ترسيخ ثقافة التقدير والوفاء لكل من يسهم في نجاح المنظومة الرياضية. وتقدم بلان بالشكر إلى الاتحاد الرياضي القطري للشرطة برئاسة اللواء خالد بن حمد العطية على هذا التكريم الذي نعتز به كثيراً، والذي يأتي تقديراً لجهود إدارة التحكيم ولجنة الحكام طوال الموسم

Dead Sea, Jordan: The Jordan Rally roared into life at the HoverUp park by the Dead Sea yesterday evening, with Qatar’s Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah bidding for an 18th victory in the Hashemite Kingdom.

Seventeen crews competing in the third round of the FIA Middle East Rally Championship (MERC) were joined at the start ceremony by another 10 teams solely tackling the second and third rounds of the Jordan national series. They all will tackle a dozen gravel special stages today and tomorrow in the Jordan Valley and Dead Sea areas. sportbet.reviews

The new Hover-Up Park, nestled in the sandy valley to the north of the Dead Sea, provided the perfect back drop to the start of the Jordan Rally. Al-Attiyah is partnering with Spanish co-driver Candido Carrera with one eye on the Drivers’ Championship, and currently trails his cousin Nasser Khalifa Al-Atya by 12 points.

Al-Attiyah said: “It’s nice to be here again. It’s a difficult race and one of the most beautiful. After winning Oman, we went back to Qatar and were leading until we had a problem with a wheel rim. It was a mistake by the manufacturer. We lost a lot of points but we are here and well prepared. I have won here 17 times. I enjoy my life and I enjoy this event a lot. The stages are nice and the new Rawda stage will be new for everyone. It’s also easy to get a puncture there.

“We need to be clever to get full points because we don’t know what will happen with Lebanon and Cyprus and then the last race will be in Saudi Arabia. This is part of the WRC and more points will be available at that race. Winning here will make it easier for us at the end of the year.”

الأخباربوعلام خوخي رجل المناسبات الكبرىأثبت المدافع بوعلام خوخي أنه رجل المناسبات الكبرى لمنتخب قطر، بعدما قاده إلى اقتناص نقطة أولى غير مسبوقة وثمينة أمام سويسرا في باكورة مشاركة العنابي الثانية في بطولة كأس العالم ...فتح →

Oman’s Abdullah Al-Rawahi was the fastest on the shakedown stage.

Oman’s Abdullah Al-Rawahi has consistently matched the Qatari on stages in recent seasons and he too needs as many points as possible after a difficult start to the year. Al-Rawahi is currently 19 points off the championship lead.

The Omani said: “It’s always a good feeling to be back to the place where I actually started rallying in the Middle East championship. These are some of the toughest stages in the region, very technical and the competition is high. We have been close to him (Al-Attiyah) for the last two years. We have taken another step forward and have been working really hard with the team to get the best set-up."

Al-Rawahi was the first driver to post a time in yesterday’s morning’s 4.83km Shakedown stage. He stopped the clocks in 3min 05.0sec, 12.4 seconds quicker than Hamza Bakhashab on his first of a maximum of two runs. Both drivers were markedly quicker on their second passes with Al-Rawahi topping the times by 5.2 seconds with a run of 2min 58.8sec.

Al-Attiyah and Al-Atya both sat out the shakedown opportunity but Sheikh Bader Al-Fayez and Bassel Abu Hamdan took advantage to finalise the set-up on their Škoda Fabia RSs.

The two QMMF-entered Peugeot 208 Rally4s were closely matched with Rashid Al-Muhannadi getting the better of young Mohammed Al-Marri by just 1.3 seconds, although Al-Marri did improve more on his second pass to set the fifth quickest time. Al-Muhannadi teamed up with French co-driver Florian Barral as a late replacement for Szymon Gospodarczyk.

Only 11 of the 17 FIA crews took advantage of the shakedown opportunity.

Leading Jordanian hope Shaker Jweihan knows that his only realistic hope of a podium is if several of his Rally2 rivals hit problems over the course of the next two days. He is dominating the FIA MERC2 category and is relishing the challenge of achieving a hattrick of category wins.

Competitors will tackle two passes through three stages today. The first run through Shuna (15.25km) gets proceedings underway at 09.49hrs and this is followed by rapid-fire sprints through Baptism (11.24km) from 10.39hrs and Ma’in (16.87km), starting at 11.30hrs.

After a return to the Dead Sea for a midday service and regroup, the three stages are repeated in the afternoon from 13.49hrs, 14.39hrs and 15.30hrs.

On paper it looked like an easy race…

The problem is 70.3s are not raced on pieces of paper. In theory this was the perfect race to get ready for the upcoming Dubai season. Train during the summer and then a nice little trip down to Salalah. The flights should be easy, sheltered swim, flat bike and an easy run with the action at the race hotel. What could possibly go wrong… PBs all the way. Well, that’s what the brochure said!

Having spent 8 hours to get from checking in at DXB Terminal 3, negotiating a few Fly Dubai baggage hoops, to walking into the accommodation it was already appearing not as straight forward as it first seemed. All the chatter on the transit bus was that the water temperature had been tested at 27 degrees meaning that wet suits would probably not be permitted. Should have packed the swim skin!

The Fanar hotel is the perfect race hotel. My room overlooked the swim start and it was less than 100m to the transition zones. Cool. The buffets in the hotel were well stocked with all your triathlon favorites.

I should have realized when I rolled the bike out of the hotel at 07:30AM on the day before the race to be met by waves of heat and humidity and a stiff breeze that this was stacking up to be a long and tough day in the office. The bike reccy lulled me into a false sense of security; a smooth road surface and a gentle rolling hill indicated that this was going to be a very fast outward leg with a strong tailwind and a headwind on the return journey. The one thing that strikes you about Salalah is how green it is.. Yorkshire Dales with camels? The course hugs the coast with wide open sandy beaches and white spray mist hanging in the air. Conclusion: Full gaz on the outward leg and grind it out on the return.

Race day dawns with the expected announcement that it will not be a wet suit swim as the water temperature is measured by the race referee at 28 degrees. Not even close! Beep, Beep Beep and off we go 5 at a time into the murky lagoon. It would have been helpful to have a few more buoys for sighting purposes in the outer lagoon but overall, an uneventful swim. Out onto the bike and with the wind on our backs we feel like Olympic time trialists hitting speeds of 40 kmph and over. There are a some gradual climbs on the way out giving spectacular views of the coast on our right hand side, and super fast downhill stretches. Must be on for a PB here as we turn around in just over an hour! It did seem slightly strange that for the last 5km of the outward leg the returning cyclists all seemed to be stood still with their race numbers horizontally flapping in the breeze. Oh dear, as soon as we turned around, the wind was full on and the return leg was a most miserable 45 km into a very stiff headwind which did not permit much over 30km per hour for long stretches. And those rolling hills became rolling uphill’s into the wind. By 10:00AM the sun was high overhead ready to beat down on the runners as they completed the two-loop course.

One has to say that the aid stations on the run were really well staffed and always had ice cold water and ice to hand. Thank you to the race organisers and the volunteers who did an amazing job across the whole weekend.

Finally, down the red carpet for the finish line feels. Always a great moment when all the sweat, suffering, pain and pee down your legs seems worth it after all. The suffering quickly forgotten over a few beers at the awards ceremony. When is the next one?

TriDubai swept to first place in the Tri Club Championships and great to see so many athletes from the GCC traveling to Salalah to compete.

First female was TriDubai’s Lea Lindschoft who had the most amazing race.

By David Hunt, Sported.ae and Certified TriSutto Coach