Did the IOC Reprimand Lebanon For Barring Israeli Athletes From Bus?

Few days after the Lebanese Olympic team refused to ride on a bus with Israeli athletes travelling to the Games’ opening ceremony in Rio, the International Olympic Committee reprimanded the head of the Lebanese delegation on Sunday and warned Lebanese delegation head Salim al-Haj Nakoula that they would not accept any other situations like the one according to and . I couldn't find any official link to the Olympic Committee's response but I wouldn't be…

Updates On The Lebanese Athletes Competing At The Rio 2016 Olympics

Update : - Elias Nacif was disqualified on his opening game. - Anthony Barbar ranked 50th in the heats and didn't qualify. - Mona Shaito lost on her opening game. - Chirine Njeim runs tomorrow and Ahmed Hazer on the 16th. Lebanon had a rather disappointing start to the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics. Our Lebanese table tennis Mariana Sahakyanstar star lost in her opening game against a Nigerian player and is out. Ray Bassil, the…

CardioDiagnostics: Cloud-based Heart Monitoring Powered by Microsoft

Ziad Sankari was 17 years old when his father died of a heart attack. Ever since, Ziad has dedicated his career to cardiac care and has founded in 2012 CardioDiagnostics: an award-winning medical technology innovation company specialized in the R&D of breakthrough cardiac monitoring technologies. CardioDiagnostics uses FDA-approved wearable devices that are 24/7 GPS-enabled heart rate monitors allowing for heart monitoring centers to communicate diagnostic and preventive information to patients in the United States and…

Lebanon’s Best Team Sport is Surprisingly Rugby League

The Independent surveyed the world rankings of the most popular team sports and came up with a map that shows which sport each country is best at. The team sports featured were football, rugby Union, test cricket, volleyball, baseball, basketball, ice hockey, field hockey, handball, netball, and rugby league. Lebanon's best sport was Rugby League as our ranking is 20th worldwide. Most people would think we'd be better ranked in Basketball but we are only…
Animals & Wildlife

Beirut Municipality Drops “Dog Ban” Proposal

9 years ago
Photo Credits: Animals Lebanon Beirut Municipality has dropped its proposal to ban dogs on sidewalks in Beirut and clarified that they will put in place regulations and procedures to improve safety and public hygiene, and ...
Events

Ray Bassil, The World’s No1 Female Trap Shooter, is Targeting Lebanon’s First Olympic Gold

9 years ago
Photo Credits: CNN Update: Ray didn’t qualify to the semi-finals but improved on her previous performance. She’ll get that medal in 2020. Third time’s the charm 🙂 Ray Bassil had a rather disappointing Olympic debut ...
Humor

#Rio2016: Lebanon’s Population is 6.2 Million According to NBC

9 years ago
The 2016 Olympic Games were formally opened in a beautiful ceremony earlier today and were broadcasted to an estimated audience of three billion. These are the first ever Olympics to be held in South America ...
Critiques

Aerial View of the Costa Brava Landfill

9 years ago
The Costa Brava landfill looks bad, it smells terrible and it’s located at the worst place possible. People living next to the landfill should have been evacuated prior to its opening and proper measures should ...
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