Al-Ahram Weekly   Al-Ahram Weekly
11 -17 February 1999
Issue No. 416
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 Back issues Current issue

A hockey first
Hockey Egypt beat India -- past masters of the game -- to win the first international field hockey championship staged in the country. Abeer Anwar reports

Juniors come fourth
Egypt could only manage fourth place in the under-17 Afro-European Football Championship


Promoting sports medicine
In an attempt to promote sports medicine, the Physicians Syndicate recently held a three-day conference entitled "The Basics of Sports Medicine". Eman Abdel-Moeti attended
All are winners
Egypt's mentally disabled athletes took first place in the Second Pan-Arab Championship, but for many participation was more important than the medal count

Hoddle fires back
Fired as the English national football team coach due to his remarks which implied that disabled people were being punished for sins committed in a previous life, Glenn Hoddle hit out at British Sports Minister Tony Banks, claiming he had played a part in his dismissal. --read on--

 

 
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