Thursday, December 24, 2009

Opinion: Sport boosts peaceful life

Since the idea of international sports meeting has been launched in the modern era, the main target was to boost the relations between nations and getting them for a few days of gathering where they compete in fair play rules for just honor prizes.
But while Life got developed by time, the economics and politics struggles caused many international conflicts which had their influence on the other fields of life including sports and the result many rioters marred some prestigious international events.

Even though such ignorant turbulent could never been the majority, just a sort of people who cannot understand that sport gather two competitors and not enemies.
For that, behavior of such groups won’t mean that sport’s meetings increase the tensions, since such category of people will export their retardation everywhere, wherever the occasion give them the chance, and not only in sport.

For this reason, international prestigious sports event which take place usually each 4 years, are a great chance for developed citizens to show their civilized life and educations by supporting their nations in safe way especially when we know that sport will never go higher than the human relations who are based on respect without any kind of racism or violence.

And just with a fast referendum we can know that FIFA and IOC have a higher number of members then the United Nations, which assure that the worldwide is convincing by the positive influence of sports which is a way for respectable and safety life.
A great example about the positive aspect of sports is the Good Will Games which have been established to combine between the east and west’s camp during the cold war among former Soviet Union and USA, and its result was a new era of peaceful relations based on sport.

Therefore sport will remain a safe place to be proud of our countries and to release our patriotic emotions despite of rare unfortunate accidents which cannot be countable especially if we know that during fifteen world cup and 28 summer Olympic Games the whole world where living in a real humanity celebrations, and we should always remember that nothing is perfect in this life and things are always relative.

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Basketball: Lebanon awarded wild cards for 2010 FIBA World Championship


During today's meeting of the FIBA Central Board - the highest executive body of the International Basketball Federation - the following teams were awarded wild card entries to next year's FIBA World Championship in Turkey: Germany , Lebanon , Lithuania and Russia.

The decisions were made in accordance with the criteria outlined by the FIBA Central Board. The wild card system was first introduced for the 2006 FIBA World Championship in Japan, following the decision to increase the number of teams from 16 to 24.

With the four wild cards joining the 20 qualified teams, the following teams go into the hat for the draw that will take place on Tuesday 15th December (11:30AM local time / 10:30AM CET) in Istanbul:



  • Angola

  • Argentina

  • Australia

  • Brazil

  • Canada

  • China

  • Croatia

  • France

  • Germany

  • Greece

  • Iran

  • Ivory Coast

  • Jordan

  • Lebanon

  • Lithuania

  • New Zealand

  • Puerto Rico

  • Russia

  • Serbia

  • Slovenia

  • Spain

  • Tunisia

  • Turkey

  • USA

source: www.fiba.com