Al-Ahram Weekly Online   9 - 15 September 2004
Issue No. 707
Sports
 
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

To the winners
As part of celebrations marking Egypt's Olympic medal-winning performance in Athens, President Hosni Mubarak honoured 15 members of the country's Olympic delegation, including players, trainers and federation heads
Always away
The Palestinian football team is striving to make a name for itself. In this first of a two-part series, Moina Fauchier-Delavigne describes what it's like to play for Palestine
So special
There were winners but no losers at the regional games for disabled athletes, writes Abeer Anwar
Back in business
A ferocious battle with the Indomitable Lions was expected but, as Nashwa Abdel-Tawab reports, Egypt did the mauling
Fighting female
The women's karate champion of Egypt, Amani Arafa, has won two medals at the World Karate Mediterranean Cup that ended earlier this week in Istanbul. Inas Mazhar reports
Tame is Africa
Talent wasn't the problem; poor organisation and a paucity of resources were. As Gamal Nkrumah writes, that meant Africa's performance at the 2004 Olympics was lacklustre

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