The Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) Secretary-General HE Jassim bin Rashid al-Buenain visited Team Qatar accommodation at the Olympic Village of the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games on Sunday.
Al-Buenain praised the administrative delegation’s efforts in providing safe environment for Qatar athletes. On the other hand, Qatar’s beach volleyball team arrived in Tokyo yesterday to participate in the Olympics, which will be held from July 23 to August 8.
The delegation is headed by President of Qatar Volleyball Association Ali bin Ghanem al-Kuwari. Qatar’s Cherif Younousse and Ahmed Tijan were drawn in Pool C and will take on World No 5 Jacob Gibb and Taylor Crabb of the United States, World No 18 Adrian Carambula and Enrico Rossi of Italy and World No 19 Adrian Heidrich and Mirco Gerson of Switzerland. The Qatari duo will begin their campaign on July 25 with a match against Heidrich and Gerson. Qatar’s rower Tala Abujbara began her training sessions in Japan in preparation for her campaign. Tala secured her spot in Tokyo Games clocking a time of 8:20 minutes at Asia and Oceania Rowing Qualification Championship in Kuwait. Tala claimed the gold medal of the 2016 GCC Rowing Championships in Doha and the bronze medal of the 2017 Arab Rowing Championships in Tunisia.
Ahmed Yousef al-Darwish, Team Qatar’s Deputy Chef de Mission stressed that administrative delegation will leave no stone unturned to help the Qatari athletes perform to their full potentials and do our nation proud.
Team Qatar’s media delegation visited Tokyo Media Center yesterday. Abdulhadi al-Sahli, head of Team Qatar’s media delegation said that the visit will help the Qatari media personnel provide the best media coverage for Tokyo Olympics.