Dubai News

Dubai: Last week's qualification of athletes for women's weightlifting for the 2012 London Olympics had one person heaving a huge sigh of relief. For that sigh was for the four years of relentless hard work that she had undergone in pruning a bunch of girls into possible champions in an unlikely sport like weightlifting. "Getting the girls to attend our training sessions on a regular basis was one Read more [...]

Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) will kick off an action-packed three months of sporting adventure comprising exciting leisure activities on June 8. This one-of-a-kind indoor event in the region, Dubai Sports World 2012, will take place from June 8 – August 31, in partnership with Dubai Sports Council (DSC) and Dubai Events and Promotion Establishment (DEPE), and supported by the Roads Transport Authority (RTA). With a capacity Read more [...]

Dubai: Organisers of the annual season-ending Al Gaffal Sir Bu Naair to Dubai 60-foot dhow sailing race are hoping for a weekend of family fun when the event is held at the Dubai International Marine Club (DIMC) on May 26. "This year's race will be totally family-centric," Sid Bensalah, sports director of the DIMC, told Gulf News. "We want to engage the communities we live in to come and be part of Read more [...]

Dubai: The UAE's Manchester City fans are confident Roberto Mancini's men will clinch the Premier League title today. A first league crown in 44 years for the Citizens depends on the outcome of their match at home to Queens Park Rangers and Manchester United's game away to Sunderland today, with the Mancunian rivals heading into the last day of the season level locked together 86 points. But City's Read more [...]

Dubai: Some of the UAE's top sports personalities have welcomed the setting up of a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) office in Abu Dhabi, which is scheduled to be opened today. The CAS office is a venture between the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department (ADJD) and the International Olympic Committee's International Council for Arbitration for Sport. This new office at Al Jazira Club's Al Jazira Towers is the first CAS has set up outside its headquarters Read more [...]

The newly introduced boys under 19 schools category of the 7th Indian Basketball League (IBL), organised by the Indian Basketball Society (IBS), had a great kick start when two keenly contested games kept the turnout in suspense till the final hooter. In the first fixture Our Own School, Al Wa'arqa beat Dubai Modern High School, 34-30. At half time Our Own led 19-11. In Read more [...]

Dubai: The Dubai Sports Council (DSC) aims to create a family atmosphere at the AFC Futsal Championship — which will be held in Dubai from May 25 to June 1 — in a bid to attract fans to the continental competition. Emirati Budriya Faisal is leading the marketing drive for the event, which will see 16 teams from around Asia compete for the title at the Al Wasl and Al Shabab club indoor halls, with the best four also qualifying for the 2012 Read more [...]