Expect more high-octane action on day three of the Tokyo Olympics as athletes fight it out for medals.
The opening two days of the Games saw many incredible performances and some shocking results. Below is a list of athletes from the Mena region who will be competing on Monday.
Badminton (women’s, men’s, mixed doubles and singles)
Musashino Forest Sport Plaza
The group stage play continues today in women’s, men’s singles and doubles.
As luck of the draw would have it, Egypt will be taking on the Netherlands in both the mixed doubles and women’s doubles play, with Doha Hany playing in both matches. Iranian Soraya Aghaeihajiagha’s opens her campaign in the women’s single play while Israel’s Misha Zilberman will be looking to build on his opening victory over 2019 World Champion bronze medalist Bhamidipati Sai Praneeth, when he takes on the Netherlands Mark Caljouw.
Boxing - Various preliminaries
Kokugican Arena
Plenty more action in the ring today as the preliminary rounds continue in the men’s fly and middleweights and women’s featherweight classes.
Seyedshahin Mousavi Iran won bronze at the Asian Championships this year. The middleweight (69-75kg) fighter will be going toe-to-toe with Japan’s Yuto Moriwaki. In the same weight class, Algeria’s Younes Nemouchi takes on Ugandan Kavuma David Ssemujju.
Fencing
Makuhari Messe
Tunisia, Algeria and Egypt will be represented in the men’s foil individual and women’s sabre individual competitions today.
Tunisia’s Amira Ben Chaabane will be looking to pull off an upset against world number seven Liza Pusztai from Hungary in the women’s sabre.
Yoyogi National Stadium
After a strong start, beating Portugal 37-31 on Friday, Egypt’s men will be hoping to cause problems for Denmark, a team highly expected to finish on the podium.
Judo - women’s -57kg and men’s -73kg
Nippon Budokan
Plenty of judokas to be keeping up with on competition day for the women’s -57kg and men’s -73kg weight categories.
In the men’s -73kg weight class, UAE’s hopes lie with Victor Scvortov. Ranked 20th in the world, his opening elimination game will be against the 2021 World Championship silver medalist Tommy Macias from Sweden.
In the women’s -57kg class, we will be keeping an eye on the progress of Ghofran Khelifi, the three-time African Championships Winner from Tunisia.
Shooting - women’s and men’s skeet
Asaka Shooting/ Shotgun ranges
In the women’s skeet, Morocco’s Ibtissam Marirhi will begin day two in 18th after her efforts on first qualifying day, and Bahrain’s Maryam Hassani in 26th.
In the men’s competition, UAE’s Saif bin Futais will be hoping to improve on his totals yesterday to make the final. Abdullah Alrashidi, representing Kuwait, dropped just one shot off a perfect score on the first day of qualifying, leaving him in joint sixth while Egypt’s Azmy Mehelba dropped one more.
Sailing - various
Enoshima and Kamakura
In the women’s windsurfing, Katy Spychakov of Israel has gotten off to a great start, and is currently placed in fifth after three races. She will be back in the water today.
Egypt’s Aly Badawy finished 32nd in yesterday’s one person dinghy race, today he has two more races to climb the tables.
Surfing
Tsurigasaki Surfing Beach
Having gotten off to a strong start yesterday, Moroccan Ramzi Boukhaim has been drawn against Frenchman Michel Bourez in the third round of the men’s surfing event.
Swimming - various
Tokyo Aquatics Centre
Lebanon’s Gabriella Doueihy and Morocco’s Lina Khiyara will both be competing in the same heat of the women’s 200m freestyle. Look out for Israel’s Andrea Murez who will be swimming a few minutes later.
Table tennis - women’s and men’s singles
Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium
Two Egyptian’s remain in the singles tournaments. Omar Assar will face Ukraine Lei Kou in the second round of the men’s singles, and Dina Meshref will play in the third round of the women’s competition.
Taekwondo - women’s -67kg and men’s -80kg
Makuhari Messe
Two big names in the men’s -80kg class to follow here will be Egypt’s Seif Eissa (world number five) and Jordan’s Saleh Elsharabarty (ranked sixth). Both are looking to build on gold medals in the African Championships and Asian Championships this year, respectively.
Julyana Al-Sadeq from Jordan is ranked 9th in the world in the women’s -67kg class. She will be opening up her campaign against Brazilian Milena Titoneli, ranked 10th in what promises to be a great contest. Look out too for Egypt’s Heaya Wahba who starts her run in against world number six, Magda Wiet Henin from France.
Triathlon - men’s
Odaiba Marine Park
Out of the 56 athletes will be swimming 1,500m, cycling 40km and running 10km, we will be following a few athletes from the region.
The Shachar brothers, Sagiv and Ran, will be representing Israel. Mohamad Maso from Syria and Mehdi Essadiq from Morocco will be in the field.
Volleyball - men’s preliminary round
Ariake Arena
After their bruising 3-0 defeat to Rio 2016 gold medalists Brazil on Friday, Tunisia’s men will be looking to bounce back against France today.
Mercer, the investment consulting arm of US services company Marsh & McLennan, expects its wealth division to at least double its assets under management (AUM) in the Middle East as wealth in the region continues to grow despite economic headwinds, a company official said.
Mercer Wealth, which globally has $160 billion in AUM, plans to boost its AUM in the region to $2-$3bn in the next 2-3 years from the present $1bn, said Yasir AbuShaban, a Dubai-based principal with Mercer Wealth.
“Within the next two to three years, we are looking at reaching $2 to $3 billion as a conservative estimate and we do see an opportunity to do so,” said Mr AbuShaban.
Mercer does not directly make investments, but allocates clients’ money they have discretion to, to professional asset managers. They also provide advice to clients.
“We have buying power. We can negotiate on their (client’s) behalf with asset managers to provide them lower fees than they otherwise would have to get on their own,” he added.
Mercer Wealth’s clients include sovereign wealth funds, family offices, and insurance companies among others.
From its office in Dubai, Mercer also looks after Africa, India and Turkey, where they also see opportunity for growth.
Wealth creation in Middle East and Africa (MEA) grew 8.5 per cent to $8.1 trillion last year from $7.5tn in 2015, higher than last year’s global average of 6 per cent and the second-highest growth in a region after Asia-Pacific which grew 9.9 per cent, according to consultancy Boston Consulting Group (BCG). In the region, where wealth grew just 1.9 per cent in 2015 compared with 2014, a pickup in oil prices has helped in wealth generation.
BCG is forecasting MEA wealth will rise to $12tn by 2021, growing at an annual average of 8 per cent.
Drivers of wealth generation in the region will be split evenly between new wealth creation and growth of performance of existing assets, according to BCG.
Another general trend in the region is clients’ looking for a comprehensive approach to investing, according to Mr AbuShaban.
“Institutional investors or some of the families are seeing a slowdown in the available capital they have to invest and in that sense they are looking at optimizing the way they manage their portfolios and making sure they are not investing haphazardly and different parts of their investment are working together,” said Mr AbuShaban.
Some clients also have a higher appetite for risk, given the low interest-rate environment that does not provide enough yield for some institutional investors. These clients are keen to invest in illiquid assets, such as private equity and infrastructure.
“What we have seen is a desire for higher returns in what has been a low-return environment specifically in various fixed income or bonds,” he said.
“In this environment, we have seen a de facto increase in the risk that clients are taking in things like illiquid investments, private equity investments, infrastructure and private debt, those kind of investments were higher illiquidity results in incrementally higher returns.”
The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, one of the largest sovereign wealth funds, said in its 2016 report that has gradually increased its exposure in direct private equity and private credit transactions, mainly in Asian markets and especially in China and India. The authority’s private equity department focused on structured equities owing to “their defensive characteristics.”
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Quick pearls of wisdom
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Know how to fight: Shetty married his wife, Radhi, three years ago (he met her in a meditation class before he went off and became a monk). He says they’ve had to learn to respect each other’s “fighting styles” – he’s a talk it-out-immediately person, while she needs space to think. “When you’re having an argument, remember, it’s not you against each other. It’s both of you against the problem. When you win, they lose. If you’re on a team you have to win together.”
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Rosewood and Transparent — heart issues
24: Legacy — PTSD;
Superstore and NCIS: New Orleans — wheelchair-bound
Taken and This Is Us — cancer
Trial & Error — cognitive disorder prosopagnosia (facial blindness and dyslexia)
Grey’s Anatomy — prosthetic leg
Scorpion — obsessive compulsive disorder and anxiety
Switched at Birth — deafness
One Mississippi, Wentworth and Transparent — double mastectomy
Dragons — double amputee
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