‘qatar News’ Archives
Spirit of Qatar Clinches 2011 National High Points Championship
DOHA, Qatar — Dave Villwock led the Spirit of Qatar team to its first national high points championship in four years by winning the first heat of the Oryx Cup UIM World Championship on Friday. Villwock is putting the exclamation mark on a storybook season that already includes a driver high points championship and becoming the sport's [...]
Marriott launches 3-brand Doha City Center hotels
Marriott International has launched its new multiple-brand Doha City Center complex with an exclusive event featuring an RLife Live performance by well-known artist Hamdan Al Abri. The celebration welcomed the 257-room Renaissance Doha City Center Hotel, 204-room Courtyard by Marriott Doha City Center and 123-unit Marriott Executive Apartments [...]
QMSF to host Oryx Cup World Championship
The Qatar Marine Sports Federation (QMSF) is putting together the final preparations on the Doha Corniche for this weekend’s Oryx Cup World Championship, the final round of the 2011 Air National Guard Hydroplane Championship - the most spectacular power boat racing series on the planet. Twelve of the world’s fastest hydroplane racers have [...]
Doha’s efforts for athletics draw IAAF praise
Doha may have lost the race to host the 2017 World Championships, but the Qatar’s continued effort in promoting athletics in the region has won praise from the sport’s world governing body – the IAAF. IAAF president Lamine Diack, talking to reporters on Friday evening following announcement of London as the winner, said: “I must also [...]
Losing athletics vote will not impede Qatar’s sporting transformation
Doha's disappointment at being defeated by London to the prize of the 2017 World Athletics Championships will not endure long. Nothing stands still in Qatar any more. "Build it and they will come," is one of the most famous misquotes from movie history but the mythical statement paraphrased from Kevin Costner's Field of Dreams appears to have [...]
Qatar’s bid for 2017 World Athletics Championships the latest offensive to capture sport’s global limelight
Europe’s premier playground for the rich and famous is home to the International Association of Athletics Federations, which will on Friday decide whether Qatar will become the playground of the world’s best athletes by staging the 2017 World Athletics Championships. Should Doha’s bid be succesful the event will be added to a growing list [...]
Qatar offers $7.9m donation as part of Doha 2017 bid
The chairman of the UK’s athletics association has said he is not concerned about a £5m ($7.9m) donation by Qatar to International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) as part of the fight to host the 2017 World Championships. Ed Warner said in comments published by UK media on Wednesday that the payment was unlikely to end his [...]
Bribery probe into athletics chief
London's bid to host the 2017 World Athletics Championships, the third largest international sports event after the Olympics and the World Cup, is to be decided by a sports body headed by a man under investigation for corruption. Lamine Diack, the powerful president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), is being [...]
Networking event for web and digital experts
Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar (VCUQ) has invited designers, web developers and e-marketers to discuss Design, Content and Creativity at a web and digital experts community meet-up on November 19. The event, to be held with prior registration, starts at 10.30am. “Refresh Qatar”, a bi-annual networking event held at the VCUQatar [...]
Qatar Learns Mega-Event Bidding Lessons from 2022 World Cup Campaign
(WFI) Sheikh Saoud Bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, secretary general of the Qatar Olympic Committee, tells INSIDER that the Gulf nation's successful 2022 World Cup bid, based around much-hyped cooling technologies, has paved the way for his country to secure future mega-events. Speaking about the lessons from the FIFA World Cup bid for Doha's 2017 [...]
