The International Federation of the Game visits "Expo 2020 Dubai"
4 Karate World Cup players bid farewell to the World Cup
The round of differentiation ravages the dreams of the national team star Fatima Salem in front of the champion of Vietnam.
Photography: Osama Abu Ghanem
Four of the Kumite national team players bid farewell to the World Karate Championship, currently being held in its 25th edition, hosted by the Hamdan bin Mohammed Sports Complex in Dubai, and extending until November 21, with the participation of 1,000 male and female players from 117 countries, after Sulaiman Al Mulla and Ahmed Salem left the second round in the tournament. Under-86 and 67-kg competitions, which were completed with a difficult loss for the young player Fatima Salem, and a women's under-68-kg differentiation tour, the latest of which was Hawra Al-Ajmi's heavy loss in the under-50-kg competition.
Suleiman Al Mulla and Fatima Salem were unlucky after Al Mulla lost his second match to Russian Maxine Sachkov 5-6, at a time when he won his first match in the differentiation round at the expense of Slovakian Thomas Soka, after a negative tie at the end of the original time, while the differentiation round blew the dreams of Fatima Salem By awarding the victory to her Vietnamese rival, Bout Queverd, after they tied 0-0 in the original time.
Ahmed Salem's farewell to the competitions came, when he received a heavy loss against Moroccan Anas Al-Ami, 0-7. The same thing was repeated with the player of the national team, Hawraa Al-Ajmi, who was defeated by Hong Kong player Ye Ting Tsang, 0-6.
On the other hand, the delegation of the International Karate Federation visited, the day before yesterday, “Expo 2020 Dubai”, at the invitation of the Supreme Organizing Committee of the World Championship, and the visit came within the framework of providing the opportunity for international delegations participating in the “Dubai World Cup” for men and women, to get acquainted closely, and attend The largest event in the history of the International Expo, visiting a number of pavilions, foremost of which are the pavilions of the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Russia and Spain, and touring the Al-Wasl Dome and the rest of the exhibition corridors.
The delegation of the International Federation was accompanied by the Chairman of the Supreme Organizing Committee of the World Cup, the President of the UAE and Asian Karate Federations, the First Vice President of the International Federation, Major General Nasser Abdul Razzaq Al-Razuqi.
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