Qatar Daily News

FC Barcelona coach, Josep Guardiola, is to become an ambassador for the Qatar 2022 Bid.

Guardiola, whose team won the 2009 UEFA Champions League, spent two years playing for Qatar’s Al Ahli Club, and recently returned to the country after leading his team to the FIFA Club World Cup title in the UAE’s Abu Dhabi, the sixth trophy of an historic season.

“I am very pleased to be representing Qatar’s 2022 World Cup Bid,” Guardiola said upon his appointment. “I believe this is a truly unique bid, and a wonderful opportunity to spread the magic and the benefits of the world’s favourite game across the globe.”
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Stage 1
Team Sky blitz the team time trial and Edvald Boasson-Hagen pulls on the leaders yellow jersey after an 8.2km circuit around West Bay Lagoon.
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A superb opening round of 67 rocketed Coxmoor star Oliver Wilson to joint top of the Qatar Masters leaderboard today.
Wilson hit birdies at the second, fourth, seventh, 10th, 12th and 13th hole to cancel out a dropped shot at the third for a five under par round.
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MEN’S PROGRAMME

Friday – 22/01/2010 Individual Event

08:00 – Fencers Call + Registration

08:30 Heats

Saturday – 23/01/2010 Individual Event (continued)

09:00 – 64 Fencers Schedule

18:00 – Finals

Sunday – 24/01/2010 Team Events

09:00 – Direct elimination per team

18:00 – Finals per team

20:00 – Dinner offered by the Organising Committee

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About 256 fencers including men and women have confirmed their participation for the 2010 Qatar Fencing Grand Prix – Epee to be held here at the Aspire.

The four-day championship begins from January 22 with participation of men and women fencers representing more than 31 countries.

China, France and Switzerland are sending the biggest contingent of 8 men and 8 women respectively.

Hosts Qatar will field 12 men and 8 women in the USD 54,000 rich tournament.

Qatar Fencing Grand Prix Schedule

http://www.qatarfencing.org



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Smart Gilas Pilipinas showed the other facet of its game as it shellacked host Qatar with its newfound defense, 46-38, late Friday night in the first of an exhibition series in its two-week Middle East sojourn.

Playing before a loud, predominantly Filipino crowd at the jampacked Al Gharaf Stadium in Doha, Qatar, the Nationals kept the Qataris out of their comfort zone with a nearly impenetrable interior defense to jumpstart its series of exhibition games culminating in the prestigious Dubai Invitational slated Jan. 14-23.
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rld number 10 Jo-Wilfred Tsonga has been forced to pull out of the Qatar Open because of a wrist injury, hampering the Frenchman’s Australian Open preparations.

The 2008 Australian Open runner-up also withdrew from a six-man invitational event in Abu Dhabi earlier this week after injuring himself in training.
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World number 10 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of has pulled out of the Qatar ExxonMobil Open, the season’s first tournament, due to a wrist injury. This was confirmed by the Qatar Tennis Federation (QTF) yesterday.

‘I am extremely disappointed not to be able to participate in Qatar ExxonMobil Open due to a wrist injury. I hope that I will come to participate in years to come but in the meantime, I wish everyone there a good event and best wishes for 2010,’Tsonga was quoted as saying in a QTF statement.

The season’s first tournament takes place at the Khalifa Tennis Complex from January 4 to 9. World number one Roger Federer and world number two Rafael Nadal are the top two players taking part in the $1.3m tournament. Russia’s Nikolay Davydenko is also part of the 32-man field in Doha.
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