• Esraa Owis, 24, a member of the Egyptian national team and Al Ahly club in long jump, attends a training session after overcoming an ankle injury to achieve the first Egyptian silver medal in long jump during the 2022 Mediterranean Games, at the Olympic Center For Training National Teams in Maadi, a suburb of Cairo, Egypt July 20, 2022. REUTERS / Amr Abdallah Dalsh
    Esraa Owis, 24, a member of the Egyptian national team and Al Ahly club in long jump, attends a training session after overcoming an ankle injury to achieve the first Egyptian silver medal in long jump during the 2022 Mediterranean Games, at the Olympic Center For Training National Teams in Maadi, a suburb of Cairo, Egypt July 20, 2022. REUTERS / Amr Abdallah Dalsh
  • Doctors originally told Owis that she only had a 10 per cent chance of competing again.
    Doctors originally told Owis that she only had a 10 per cent chance of competing again.
  • But after seven months of rehab she returned to the track.
    But after seven months of rehab she returned to the track.
  • '[After the operation] I couldn’t do even the simplest movement and everyday tasks on my own. I walked with crutches and still needed one or two people to help me around. It was very hard on me. I imagined where I had been and where I am now, but as hard as it was it motivated me to come back to sports.'
    '[After the operation] I couldn’t do even the simplest movement and everyday tasks on my own. I walked with crutches and still needed one or two people to help me around. It was very hard on me. I imagined where I had been and where I am now, but as hard as it was it motivated me to come back to sports.'
  • Owis and her trainer are now gearing up for the 2023 World Athletics Championships.
    Owis and her trainer are now gearing up for the 2023 World Athletics Championships.
  • 'We have gone through long phases of exhaustion, injuries, and massive stress. But all this, thank God, vanishes when you are rewarded, like you forget all the effort,' says Hesham Aly, her trainer.
    'We have gone through long phases of exhaustion, injuries, and massive stress. But all this, thank God, vanishes when you are rewarded, like you forget all the effort,' says Hesham Aly, her trainer.
  • 'The first thing that we need for support is to fix this stadium, because it gets players injured on a weekly basis,' Mr Aly says. 'Esraa needs to take great care to be able to qualify. We need internal and external camps and to play internationally several times. Medals are not achieved without support. Everyone should understand that the players who compete in the world championships and won medals, are sponsored with millions.'
    'The first thing that we need for support is to fix this stadium, because it gets players injured on a weekly basis,' Mr Aly says. 'Esraa needs to take great care to be able to qualify. We need internal and external camps and to play internationally several times. Medals are not achieved without support. Everyone should understand that the players who compete in the world championships and won medals, are sponsored with millions.'

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Egyptian athlete overcomes injury to win silver at Mediterranean Games - in pictures

Many training centres in the country are in need of repair and this could hold long jumper Esraa Owis back form achieving more

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July 29, 2022

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Milestones on the road to union

1970

October 26: Bahrain withdraws from a proposal to create a federation of nine with the seven Trucial States and Qatar. 

December: Ahmed Al Suwaidi visits New York to discuss potential UN membership.

1971

March 1:  Alex Douglas Hume, Conservative foreign secretary confirms that Britain will leave the Gulf and “strongly supports” the creation of a Union of Arab Emirates.

July 12: Historic meeting at which Sheikh Zayed and Sheikh Rashid make a binding agreement to create what will become the UAE.

July 18: It is announced that the UAE will be formed from six emirates, with a proposed constitution signed. RAK is not yet part of the agreement.

August 6:  The fifth anniversary of Sheikh Zayed becoming Ruler of Abu Dhabi, with official celebrations deferred until later in the year.

August 15: Bahrain becomes independent.

September 3: Qatar becomes independent.

November 23-25: Meeting with Sheikh Zayed and Sheikh Rashid and senior British officials to fix December 2 as date of creation of the UAE.

November 29:  At 5.30pm Iranian forces seize the Greater and Lesser Tunbs by force.

November 30: Despite  a power sharing agreement, Tehran takes full control of Abu Musa. 

November 31: UK officials visit all six participating Emirates to formally end the Trucial States treaties

December 2: 11am, Dubai. New Supreme Council formally elects Sheikh Zayed as President. Treaty of Friendship signed with the UK. 11.30am. Flag raising ceremony at Union House and Al Manhal Palace in Abu Dhabi witnessed by Sheikh Khalifa, then Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi.

December 6: Arab League formally admits the UAE. The first British Ambassador presents his credentials to Sheikh Zayed.

December 9: UAE joins the United Nations.

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3 out of 5 stars

(Syco Music/Arista Records)

While you're here
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Part three: an affection for classic cars lives on

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3/5

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Europe wide
Some of French groups are threatening Friday to continue their journey to Brussels, the capital of Belgium and the European Union, and to meet up with drivers from other countries on Monday.

Belgian authorities joined French police in banning the threatened blockade. A similar lorry cavalcade was planned for Friday in Vienna but cancelled after authorities prohibited it.

Getting there
Flydubai flies direct from Dubai to Tbilisi from Dh1,025 return including taxes

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