Lebanese Trap shooter Ray Bassil won fourth place in the Cairo tournament, within the Olympics Trap Shooting World Cup hosted by the Egyptian capital. Bassil had previously qualified for the Olympic Games to be held in Tokyo (Japan) next summer. This third Olympic participation comes after the London 2012 Olympics and the 2016 Rio de...
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Lebanon’s national basketball team defeats India, makes it to FIBA Asia Cup 2021
The Lebanese national basketball team on Monday winded up the third and final window of the fourth qualifiers for FIBA Asia Cup 2021 with a full score after a sixth clean victory over India (99-71) in a match that was held between them this afternoon in the Bahraini capital of Manama. The FIBA Asia Cup...
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Lebanon wins over Bahrain in Asia’s basketball championship qualifiers
The Lebanese national basketball team defeated its host Bahrain, 102-87, in the third round of the Asian qualifiers for the FIBA Cup that will be hosted by Indonesia in August. This is the sixth successive victory for the Lebanese team, which qualified for the finals from the second round, keeping its record clean from any losses...
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The mission of the basketball team to Bahrain to contest the third window of the Asian Championship qualifiers
The Lebanese national basketball team concluded its local exercises with a training session today, Tuesday, noon in the Saeb Salam Hall of the Sports Club in Al-Manara, under the supervision of the technical director, the national coach Joe Mujaez, and his assistant, the national coach, Jad Al-Hajj. The mission will head to the Bahraini capital,...
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The Ski Federation mission to Italy to participate in the Alpine Ski World Championship
The Lebanese Snow Ski Federation delegation arrived in Italy to participate in the World Alpine Skiing Championship. The mission is headed by President of the Federation Freddy Keyrouz and includes Federation Vice President Salim Kirouz, Union Treasurer Raymond Sukkar, Vice President of the AFC Yusef Shamil Khalil, French coaches Roman Garsan and Serbian Christo Durovic,...
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Italy keeps ski slopes closed, a blow to tourism
On the eve of what was supposed to finally be the much-delayed opening of Italy’s ski slopes, the government yanked permission because high circulation of a coronavirus variant. Health Minister Roberto Speranza’s ordinance on Sunday forbidding amateur skiing at least until March 5 effectively kills hopes of ski lift operators and resort owners to salvage...
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Lebanon and the summer of the sixth Arab Championship in the Union Rugby Sevens
The Lebanese Rugby Union team achieved second place in the sixth Arab Rugby Sevens for Men, which was held at the Arab Academy for Maritime Transport Stadium in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. In the final match, the Lebanese national team faced the Egyptian national team, in an enthusiastic meeting that ended in favor of...
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China refused to provide WHO team with raw data on early COVID cases, team member says
China refused to give raw data on early COVID-19 cases to a World Health Organization-led team probing the origins of the pandemic, one of the team’s investigators said, potentially complicating efforts to understand how the outbreak began. The team had requested raw patient data on the 174 cases of COVID-19 that China had identified from...
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Breaking Lebanese records in the Turkish Indoor Championship for Athletics
Five male and female athletes representing three Lebanese clubs participated in the Turkish Indoor Athletics Championships at the “Atakoy Arena” in Istanbul for three days. Lebanese records for indoor futsal racing were recorded as follows:Aziza Sbeiti, from the Antonine Republic of Baabda, set two national records: a national record in the 200 meters 24.58 seconds,...
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After Wuhan mission on pandemic origins, WHO team dismisses lab leak theory
After a 12-day visit, a World Health Organization mission to Wuhan appeared no closer Tuesday to solving the mystery of the pandemic’s origins, reiterating that the coronavirus likely spread to humans from an animal and casting doubt on theories it leaked from a lab. The group’s findings — more than a year after the initial...