It doesn’t look like the Arabs are doing too well in the Olympics, until now we only got a silver medal in fencing for Egypt and a bronze in shooting for Qatar. But follow our athletes today and pray for a luck similar to our silver medalist Alaa Abou El Kassem.
Follow our players today:
1:30 pm: Ahmed Zaher, Archery
2:30 pm: Sayed Abd El Moneim, Wrestling
2:30 pm: Karam Gaber, Wrestling
2:30 pm: Abd El Rahman Tarabily, Wrestling
4:00 pm: Shaza and Dalia, synchronized swimming
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What our athletes have been doing:
Rami Aoda, the Egyptian boxer lost against the Turkish player in the round 16 in the 49 kilograms category.
The Egyptian women and men rowing team came last at the race.
All Arabs are officially out from the shooting competition after Bahraini Azza El Kassemy ranked 33, Kuwaiti Marian Arzoky ranked 44 and Qatari Bahia Mansour ranked 46.
The Egyptian football team was eliminated after loosing 3-0 in the quarter final against Japan.
The Egyptian Ping-Pong team was eliminated after round one, loosing against Austria 3-0.
Bronze medal in weightlifting for the 85 kilograms category was snatched from Tarek Abdel Azzem when he failed to lift the 216 kilograms, coming in fourth. His teammate Ragab Abd El Hay came sixth.
Egyptian weightlifter Abear Abd ElRahman came in fifth in the 75 kilograms category.
Pentathlon competitor Mostafa El Gamal, failed to enter the final round in throwing after the Kuwaiti player scored 73.40 meters and El Gamal scored 71.3 meters. El Galam ranked 29 out of the 41 competing players and the Kuwaiti ranked 19.
Judoka Islam El Shahaby was eliminated in the 32 round.
Swimmer Farida Othman ranked number 41 out of the 73 swimmers competing in the general ranking and sixth in the ranking determination race for the 50 meters.
The Egyptian archery player Nada Kamel lost 6-0 to the Russian players.
Alaa Abou El Kassem wins the silver medal in fencing.
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Sherine EL Zeiny is out of the artistic gymnastics Olympics after being injured in her second day of competition.
Fellow gymnast Mohamed El Saharty was eliminated the first day. et
