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  • 96-year-old permitted to watch table tennis on competition floor

    2006-12-05 09:55

    A 96-year-old man has been given a special permission on Monday to watch Asian Games table tennis on the competition floor in the Al Arabi Indoor Hall.

  • Organisers vow to track down soccer bottle throwers

    2006-12-04 10:59

    The Asian Games security task force is to try and track down supporters responsible for unruly behaviour during Qatar's 1-0 defeat to Uzbekistan in the soccer tournament.

  • Iraq's Asian Games soccer win greeted with volleys of celebratory gunfire

    2006-12-04 10:36

    Iraq's 2-0 win over Oman in the Asian Games' soccer tournament in Qatar Sunday was greeted by deafening volleys of celebratory gunfire in Baghdad, a city engulfed since 2003 in violence that has not spared athletes and sports officials.

  • Rowers rattled as weather makes waves in Doha

    2006-12-04 09:30

    Desert winds whipped up problems for Asian Games rowers on Sunday, turning Doha's West Bay Lagoon into a churning channel of choppy waves.

  • Iraqi boxer cries in Doha Asiad

    2006-12-04 09:06

    Iraqi boxer Suraka Mahdi sobbed after losing to a Filipino in Sunday's preliminary round of 57kg category boxing competition in Doha Asiad.

  • Rain disrupts start to Asian extravaganza

    2006-12-02 20:14

    Storm damage played havoc with the start of the Asian Games competition on Saturday as organisers scrambled to get sports underway.

  • Kazakh equestrian team: a long drive to Doha for Asian Games

    2006-12-02 14:16

    This Kazakhstan story is for real. When the equestrian team from the former Soviet republic realized it couldn't afford to fly its team and horses from its base in Germany to the Asian Games in Doha, it decided to drive nearly 7,000 kilometers to the Arabian Gulf

  • Tight security won't spoil Doha Games - organisers

    2006-12-01 13:30

    Security at the biggest sporting event ever held in the troubled Middle East will not unduly affect Asian Games athletes and spectators, organisers said on Thursday.

  • Green Asiad in Doha, city on desert

    2006-11-30 09:53

    The DAGOC (Doha Asian Games Organizing Committee) bills "the games of life" to the forthcoming 15th Asiad. The "green element" in Doha now is poised to add weight to their motto.

  • Bodybuilding - the Games special Sport

    2006-11-29 10:33

    Bodybuilding is the art of sculpting the human body through a combination of physical exercise, diet and rest. At a competitive level it is all about impressing a panel of judges, who are looking for the most aesthetically pleasing and balanced physique.

  • Kabaddi - the Games special sport

    2006-11-29 10:07

    An esoteric team sport played mainly in Asia, Kabaddi is played on a field divided into two halves with seven-player sides taking turns raiding each other's side of the court.

  • Whistle while you work, drug testers told in Doha

    2006-11-29 10:06

    Drug testers at the Asian Games will be told to whistle while they work when it comes to policing the equine events in Qatar.

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