Sport in the UAE

Sport in the UAE

In this report I am going to write about sports in the UAE, sports that the UAE took interests on traditional sports like camel race and modern sports like shooting and horse racing.

Camel race is one of the first traditional sports in the UAE and it is linked to with the Emirates heritage because of that it became an important event in the UAE. The annual camel race festival in the UAE at Al Wathba is one of the biggest events that attract people from all over the world.  Unlike now camels were controlled by child jockeys and they were children between the age of 6 and 10 because of their light weight in there was a lot of injured children who fallen of camels until it was banned. Sheihk Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan was the one who ban the use of children under the age of 15 in 2002. Later on Qatar banned the child jockeys for all children and that camel races would be controlled by robotic jockeys.

Falconry which is hunting using trained bird. It was participated in the UAE even before the UAE was formed it was for reasons other than hunting it was used for looking for someone if he entered a tripe territory and to keep in touch with the latest developments in the area. Nowadays, falconry is practiced purely for sports. One of the most important events in falconry was in 2003 when Sheikh Mohammed falcon remarkably brought down a deer many time its weight it was the first time a falcon take down a deer.

Dhow racing in the UAE is also a traditional sport. There is two major events in the UAE for dhow racing the Mubarraz Island marine sport festival to promote the country’s marine sports heritage. The other one Al Gaffal Dhow race the most anticipated traditional boat race around 3000 participants sailing the water of the gulf. The Al Gaffal is the biggest traditional sailing race in the world.

 Emirates stated horse racing on it was in October 1981. Every year Dubai host the Dubai World Cup for horse racing and Sheikh Mohamed bin Rashid has said to the public that the UAE did not win a lot of sports achievements except horses racing because this sport is important in the UAE and in Arab Countries because it is linked with our culture and heritage. The first award that Mohamed bin Rashid won in house racing was in 1977. In 1994 he open Godolphin company from it all people in world realize that he loves the horse. Godolphin has won the richest race in the world. The leader for the endurance team in the UAE is Sheikh Mohamed bin Rashid alongside his sons they won a lot of international races.

The United Arab Emirates National Olympic Committee was formed in 1979. The UAE has competed in the Olympic Games seven times. They never participated in the winter games. They have won a medal one golden medal in 2004 summer Olympics in Greece. The medal was won by Sheikh Ahmed Al Maktoum in the men’s double trap shooting event it was the first and only golden medal that the UAE had won up until now. The UAE made a training school for the children to enroll so that we get more awards in the future.

Formula one is now one of the modern sports in the UAE. The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix is a formula one race. In 2007 the Abu Dhabi F1 festival in the UAE it was announced. The first race took place in the yas marina circuit in November 1 2009. On 25 June 2008 the FIA announced the provisional 2009 F1 calendar including the Abu Dhabi grand prix as the 19^th and final race of the season on the 15^th of November. The race was announced as the season’s finale on the first of November.in 2010 it was decided that the drivers’ championship will be held in Abu Dhabi for the first time Sebastian vettel the young German driver won the drivers’ championship. it is said that in 2014 the Abu Dhabi grand prix is scheduled to take place on 23 November  and it will conclude race of the formula one season.

Hopefully the sports in the UAE will make a huge impact in the future and achieve a lot of medals and awards in the Olympics and that the traditional sports will remain the same in the future and not to be lost or forgotten.

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History of Some Sports

In this case study I am going to write about the major differences between some sports since they were created and how they did developed along the years; the sports I have chosen are  boxing, tennis and baseball. The first sport I am going to write about is boxing. 

 When boxing first started in the BC period boxers only used a soft and thin piece of leather to cover their wrists and hands connected with some straps. The straps were made out of hard leather; some used it as some kind of weapon. Boxing matches back when it started were carried out on the street where the viewers were forming the area for the fight. The fight would continue until one of the fighters was unable to fight or it ends with one of the boxer's death and back then death in boxing was common. Boxing continued as an entertainment for years until England in 1698 started to make matches in London's Royal Theater. After few years London became the center for boxers who sought money and glory. There was only one champion because there were no weight classes. The heavyweight boxer would almost always win the match. Boxing became a very popular sport despite the fact that it was brutal and outlawed. In 1743 Jack Brownton was the one who changed boxing into a real athletic competition; he wrote the Code of Rules. Some of the rules were that boxers are forbidden to punch under the belt; the fight will last until one of the boxers is unable to take his stand in front of his opponent. The biggest thing that Jack Brownton did was inventing mufflers, the first boxing gloves ever made to protect the face and hands, after that Brownton was called the Father of Boxing. The fights for the champion title became more regular so people started to lose interest. In 1867 John Graham made most of the boxing rules that we know and it was called Queensberry code of rules such as, each round last for three minute, there is one minute break between each round and if a boxer stays on the ground for 10 seconds he will lose the match. 

 The second sport will be baseball. In the 18th century baseball had different names  such as round ball or rounders, stool ball and fletch and catch. Some of the unique rules back then were that the batter had 9 chances to hit the ball not three, if the ball hit him he would be out and there was no strike area the pitcher can throw the ball anywhere behind the batter. It was said that baseball was born from an old sport called town ball. Baseball became popular in America when amateurs started to play it with some local rules using equipment made by them in the begging of 1800s; after almost 60 years the first baseball national clubs were made. The field of baseball was made by Alexander Cartwright and the rules too; there were a lot of different rules for baseball back but the rules that were made by Alexander are the most famous and his rules were called the knickerbockers style later on it became New York style and it has not changed much since then; because of that he was called the father of baseball. Baseball was competing against cricket and the Massachusetts game which was played in New England for public interest before the civil war. After the war New York baseball style became a national game. The National Association of Professional Base Ball (NAPBB) of America was established; the biggest thing they did was splitting professionals from amateur ballplayers to what we know now as major league and minor league. One of the huge things that happened in the baseball world was an agreement called the gentlemen agreement that was made by the clubs back in the 1870s the agreement was about not making non-white players the able to play in the professional baseball that continued until 1947. The first African American player and to enter the major league was Jackie Robinson.

 Last but not least is tennis. Tennis in the early days was played using hands by hitting the ball into a wall with the palm and it was called the game of the palm. The inventor of tennis was French back in the 12th century. they called it paume which means palm; tennis also became popular in England. It was played using the palm until the 16th century; rackets were invented and it was played indoors. In the 18th century Walter Clopton Wingfield made a game similar to tennis called sticky and it was played in a garden party; he changed tennis to be played outdoors to what we know now then it started to be called real tennis. Walter made a lot of tennis courts and the net was sometimes really high. Until 1875 England made rules and regulations such as the court has to be 30 feet wide and 78 feet long but the service line was 26 feet away from the baseline; the scoring was to add 15 each time; back then it was 15, 30 and 45 instead of 40. But there were some rules that still have not been decided yet like how high should the net be. Over the years rackets and the size of the ball and net height changed a lot to what we know now. The only differences is that now we have technology; for example we use cameras to see if the ball is out or not and we do not use wooden rackets.

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