
Saudi Arabia in action at the Asian Winter Games in China. —AFP/File
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Harbin: Saudi Arabia launches its Asian Winter Games this week and will host the next edition in a sarcastic manner as “terrible” by an Olympic Skier and will be condemned by environmental groups. –
The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) unanimously approved the Desert’s bid to stage sports on its $ 500 billion mega -naum in 2022 in 2022. .
Saudi Arabia will also host the Football World Cup in 2034, which is part of the splage related to sports events, which has led to allegations of “washing sports”. Saudi officials deny it this week and were in Harbin this week, with the vice president of the country’s Olympic Committee in the Chinese city, “to see and learn”.
“Of course, it will be the first for us, to organize such a program,” Prince Fahd ibn Jalvi bin Abdul Aziz said in a news release from the OCA. “But I assure everyone that we will offer a good show.”
Future but remotely developed Naum planners, who have tried to struggle with the help of Chinese investors, say it offered a part of the year’s winter in the mountains of Trojina Will go
Naum’s executive Dennis Hickey said in Davos last month that Trojina is “deep construction”, which includes a man -made lake and “village framework that will hold the Asian Winter Games”.
This year, the temperature is not below zero in Tabuk province, northern Saudi Arabia, which covers Naum. Saudi officials did not respond to the AFP request in Harbin that they intend to prepare for 2029 sports.
He said there were eight Saudi athletes in China and although no one won the medal, he was spending “great” time in the country’s first Asian winter game. Saudi Arabia got out of the game after failing to go into the bracket of elimination with Robin’s Round Robin.
He was hit by Hong Kong 15-1 on Wednesday. But in 2017, Karler Hussein Hagwei, who selected the game, encouraged his team after “close to Japan”. He led Japan to one point after the first tip, but he lost 9-4 on Tuesday. “So far we’re doing great!” He said.
They started preparations for Harbin Games in November, indoor ice training in Saudi Arabia, including ice hockey. “Of course, no rink is compared to the international fields,” said 46 -year -old Hagvi.
His colleague Suleiman al -Qail said he did some of his training in front of his television, and squeezed his workout as a full -time data engineer. The 39 -year -old boy said: “Sometimes every three weeks,” the team met every other weekend for practice. “
“We have some limitations to keep the competition level ice, obviously, but we provide a lot of training,” said al -Qael. “As long as the team has passion, we can use anything for preparation.” In numbers, the Saudis compared to the hosts of this year, who received the highest joy at the opening ceremony, when a delegation of about 170 athletes from China entered the stadium in front of President Xi Jinping.
But the vice president of Saudi Arabia’s Olympic Committee has promised to have a huge squad in Trojina. In Harbin, his delegation included a five-member curling team and three Alpine Scars-one male and two women.
He said, “We will do our best to have athletes in every game by 2029. Hagawi said that the Saudis have planned to add doubles and women’s teams for curling in 2029. More deep local training programs. There are also ongoing negotiations.