Egypt Today Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi presented ‘National Medals of Sport’ on Thursday to Egypt’s seven medal winners and their trainers who participated at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. “Sisi honoured the champions and their trainers at Cairo’s Ittihadiya Palace. Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli, Minister of Sport Ashraf Sobhi and …
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Egypt Today Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi awarded Egyptian Olympic champions and their coaches the ‘Order of Sports’ on Tuesday. The tier of the order was designated according to the type of medal they won in Tokyo 2020. Karate Athlete and Gold Medallist in Tokyo 2020, Feryal Ashraf, received the …
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Ahram Online Tokyo launched the opening ceremony of its 2020 Olympic games under strict COVID-19 precautionary measures on Friday. The opening ceremony dazzled the world with a firework display and a (made for TV) choreography with only 950 people allowed to attend the Olympic stadium in Tokyo. The games’ organisers …
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Egypt Independent Hana Gouda, a member of the Egyptian table tennis team, will participate in the Tokyo Summer Olympics, held from 23 July to 8 August. At just 13 years old, Gouda is the youngest Egyptian player to participate in the history of the Olympics. However, Gouda’s participation in the …
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Egypt Today “Liverpool Egyptian winger Mohamed Salah will not participate with the U-23 National team in the upcoming Olympic Games”, the Egyptian Football Association (EFA) president Ahmed Megahed stated on Wednesday. “Liverpool is not willing to send Mohamed Salah with the Egyptian National team to the Olympic Games”, Megahed added. …
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Egypt Independent The 2020 Tokyo Olympics have been postponed to “no later than the summer of 2021”, because of the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the globe, the International Olympic Committee announced Tuesday. The Games were scheduled for 24 July- 9 August, but after telephone discussions between IOC president Thomas Bach …
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Egypt Today Egypt’s first handball team returned to Cairo Monday, having been crowned with the African Cup of Nations title following a win over Tunisia; host of the tournament, with a score of 27/23, which qualified the team to participate in the Tokyo Olympics 2020. The first half of …
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Nourhan Magdi – Egypt Today Yuriko Koike landed for the first time in Egypt in 1971. She arrived to study Arabic language at the American University in Cairo (AUC) before enrolling in Cairo University’s Faculty of Literature, from which she graduated in 1976. A veteran politician, Koike went on …
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Egypt Today The International Olympic Committee (OIC), under its president Thomas Bach, chose Egypt’s Aya Medany among the OIC’s task force overseeing the remainder of the process for boxing at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Medany made her Olympic debut at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, at the …
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