 | 15 teams to contest in 4th
Ladies Tour of Qatar
THE Ladies Tour of Qatar, which is due
to begin with the Shahaniya to Al Khor
Corniche leg on Wednesday, will see
another rivalry between dominant
Dutch and aspirant Italians.
After Dutch Kirsten Wild ...
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| | Rally ace Attiyah leaves for Sweden test |  FEELING confident and upbeat,
Qatari ace rally driver Nasser bin
Saleh al Attiyah set out on Tuesday in
pursuit of his dream World Rally
Championship debut.
Attiyah, who has joined world
champion team Citroen with legendary
driver Sebastien Loeb and
Mikko Hirvonen, left Doha for his
first test of his car in Sweden, which
will hold the second round of the
WRC series on February 9.
Famed for his daring driving and
big heart, Attiyah has been a former
PWRC champion in 2006. Last year,
he clinched the torturous Dakar
Rally in Volkswagen´s Race Touareg
to become the third Asian winner.
He finished the 2011 with the seventh
FIA Middle East Rally.... | | | Four Seasons hotel to
host world´s best golfers |  THE Commercialbank Qatar
Masters presented by Dolphin
Energy has once again teamed
up with the Four Seasons
Hotel Doha to provide many
of the world´s greatest golfers
with a five-star welcome to
Qatar.
For the third year in a row,
the hotel will play a key role in
the staging of the $2.5 million
event, which will feature players
such as world No 3 Lee
Westwood, world No 4 Martin
Kaymer, world No 10 Jason
Day, TPC Champion KJ Choi
and former US Open
Champion Graeme McDowell
when play gets underway at
Doha Golf Club from
February 2-5.
"Being involved with the
Commercialbank Qatar
Masters gives us great additional
exposure and further
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| | Sudan reaches quarters
first time in 42 years |  SUDAN reached the quarterfinals
of the African Cup of
Nations for the first time in 42
years on Monday, beating
Burkina Faso 2-1 to end an 11-
game winless streak at the
tournament and edge out
Angola on goal difference.
Mudather Tayeb scored
both of Sudan´s goals at
Estadio de Bata to deliver the
nation´s biggest football
moment since it won the
African Cup on home soil in
1970. It was Sudan´s first victory
in the four tournaments
it´s played at since that triumph.
Mudather broke clear to
beat Burkina Faso goalkeeper
Daouda Diakite in the 33rd
minute and then punished a
mistake by the keeper with 10
minutes to go to dramatically
carry ... |
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