in Presence of Syria’s First Lady Abdel Wahab Announces:Syria’s Games, the Biggest Since 1999
SOMENA Managing Director, Eng. Ayman Abdel Wahab, announced that Syria will host the 7th Regional Games 2010.
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H.E. Mrs. Asma Al-Assad, Syria’s First Lady, and SO Syria Honorary Chair person with SOMENA Managing Director, Eng. Ayman Abdel Wahab during SO Syria 3rd National Games .
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Abdel Wahab said the Syrian dossier outdid all other five dossiers submitted in the bid to host the seventh version of the regional event. The SOMENA Regional Games is a sports competition event held on a bi-annual basis with the last version held in Abu Dhabi in 2008.
The announcement came during the opening of the Syrian 5th National Games “Will & Life” which was attended by the Syrian Republic’s First Lady, Mrs. Asmaa El Asad in the Syrian capital of Damascus.
4 Thousand Participants, 15 Sports and 5 Side Events
In relation to his announcement, Abdel Wahab stressed his confidence in Syria’s
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Asmaa Al-Assad receives a warm welcome from an athlete.
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capability to host major events in terms of its organizational and technical potentials. In this context, he pointed out the Healthy Athletes annual conference that Syria hosted in 2005 which boasted huge success.
The SOMENA Managing Director also confirmed his strong belief that the seventh version of the event would witness an outstanding leap in the number of participants. Highlighting the numbers of athletes, having been 1000 in the fifth version in Dubai, and 1500 in the sixth version in Abu Dhabi, he said he expected the number to increase to 2000 in Syria 2010. Referring to the number of sports to be competed in, Abdel Wahab said Syria 2010 would include 15 sports, outdoing its counterpart in Abu Dhabi by three sports.
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Syrian Republic's first lady , Mrs.Asmaa El Asad with one of special Olympics athletes .
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A number of side events will also be held parallel to the Regional Games, in which delegations from all of the 22 member countries in the League of Arab States, along with Iran, will participate. These will include the 4th Families Conference, the 5th Youth Conference, the 2nd Young Athletes Conference, and an inclusive health screening in all disciplines.