Category: bahrain
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The Winning Streak
“You don’t retire from Triathlon, you graduate to this sport!” says Dr. Shaikh Saqer bin Salman Al Khalifa, the President of Bahrain Triathlon Association (BTA). A multi-faceted personality Dr. Saqer is known for his quirky blog posts and unrelenting love towards Triathlon. “I used to be part of most of the sport teams at my school,…
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Greece Today, Bahrain Tomorrow?
Ramadhan is over, and now I’m back. We are always busy, that’s life, but busy and hungry is not good to transfer my thoughts into words for you all to read, so I took a break. However, this doesn’t mean that I wasn’t itching to tell you about how Bahrain, or the world for that…
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Between the Lines of Challenge Bahrain
For every problem in life, there is a solution, however difficult the solution is, you would have to admit that there is one. Out of the 200 plus countries around the world, no perfect nation exists. What do exist, however, are indicators that make nations differentiate themselves from each another. For example, education indicators may…
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Death on a Bike
This week, I want to share this fantastic piece and keep myself busy reading 🙂 Enjoy it, because it’s our future… By Timothy Egan and published in the New York Times She was doing all the right things in the morning commute, traveling in the bike lane, wearing a helmet, following the rules of the road.…
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What’s Your University Major?
So many people graduate from universities and the first thing they do is look for a job that fits exactly what they have spent 4 or more years studying. How realistic is that? Some of the most important courses in a university are those known as ‘core courses’, which are typically the classes we…
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Is Triathlon Important?
What is the relationship between Triathlon and a nation’s economy? Is Triathlon the most important sport of the future? Is it really that important? Well, give me few minutes of your time and see if I convince you with my beliefs. Fact: Triathlon is the world’s fastest growing sport. Within the past year here…
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Politics and Sports
Sometimes it just frustrates me when people make judgments with so little or no background information on the subject matter. Other times I simply understand, if I was that ignorant. Still, what is important is to always be ready to change your judgment once you get more information, which may be totally different than…
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Spreading Love With Triathlon
It has been a while since I have written a casual article for you all to read. To be honest, almost a year have passed by while I’m still struggling to find time for my reading and writing. In week days, I find myself busy at work, and consider any free time as lucky time…
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Sheikh Saqer bin Salman Al Khalifa on the Bahrain Triathlon Association
Always sporty in his younger years, Sheikh Saqer put exercise on the back burner when he was studying for a PHD overseas but as he came up to his exams he began to feel ill and tired and a trip back to Bahrain for tests revealed he was suffering from type 2 diabetes. That…
Dr. Saqer AlKhalifa 