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 19th and
final race of the season on the 15th 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.
