11th Pan-Arab Games

[Pharaoh]

Medal Count
Country Gold Silver Bronze Totals
EGYPT 59 43 47 149
TUNISIA 31 19 17 67
ALGERIA 16 21 22 59
QATAR 5 3 4 12
IRAQ 4 11 10 25
JORDAN 4 4 7 15
LEBANON 4 2 3 9
SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC 3 7 14 24
SAUDI ARABIA 3 4 3 10
OMAN 3 0 1 4
MOROCCO 2 7 19 28
LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA 1 4 5 10
YEMEN 1 4 3 8
KUWAIT 1 3 6 10
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 0 1 3 4
BAHRAIN 0 1 0 1

[KC McElroy]

LOL after all these payments the cheating saudis are in 9th place.

[Pharaoh]

Funny that the top three medal winners of the Arab games so far aren't technically in Arabia.

[Sumerian]

The Iraqi B-ball team managed to make it to the semis after beating Kuwait & UAE; glad they managed to turn it around after the Egypt thrashing.

[taha]

i love the medals table....none of the 'richer' countries r there

[Pharaoh]

The Iraqi B-ball team managed to make it to the semis after beating Kuwait & UAE; glad they managed to turn it around after the Egypt thrashing.

Yup, great recovery by the Iraqis. Their teams have shown great character during this tournament. Egypt and Iraq may meet in the basketball finals, they're in separate semi-finals. The other two semi finalists will be determined today.

In an upset of sorts, Saudi Arabia (with its full team) lost to Libya in football.

Saudi Arabia 1:2 Libya
- GOAL 9' Saud Kearairi (KSA)
- GOAL 24' Osama Alvazani (LBY)
- RED CARD 57' Mohamed Almagrabi (LBY)
- GOAL 94' Omar Dawood (LBY)

UAE 2:0 Sudan

Handball

Morocco 18:29 Algeria
Saudi Arabia 22:32 Libya
Iraq 37:29 Jordan

[Pharaoh]

Results from Monday and Tuesday:

Handball
Jordan 29:22 Libya
Iraq 23:26 Algeria
Egypt 35:29 Saudi Arabia

Basketball
SEMIFINALS

Iraq 75:104 Jordan
Qatar 60:78 Egypt

Wednesday's games:

Football
Saudi Arabia vs. UAE
Egypt vs. Libya

Handball
Libya vs. Morocco
Jordan vs. Saudi Arabia
Algeria vs. Egypt

Basketball final is on Thursday

[Ata]

[Pharaoh]

Because you can't create continents.

[Sumerian]

Haha, the Saudi NT is so crap. They can't even beat second string Arabic sides!

[Pharaoh]

Haha, the Saudi NT is so crap. They can't even beat second string Arabic sides!

Football
Saudi Arabia (First) 1:1 UAE (B)
UAE played with 10 men since 74'

Egypt (B) 0:0 Libya (First)

Top of the standings:

Egypt 7 pts., 8 GF, 0 GA
Libya 7 pts., 4 GF, 1 GA
Saudi Arabia 4 pts., 3 GF, 2 GA

Handball
Algeria 25:31 Egypt
Libya 17:21 Morocco
Jordan 25:27 Saudi Arabia

Egypt wins Gold medal

Updated medal standings

[Pharaoh]

In the basketball final today, Egypt was losing to Jordan (who have 3 American players ) 45-28 at halftime and 62-48 at the end of the third quarter. Apparently Egypt kept hitting 3's and Jordan collapsed, as Egypt come back to win gold 76-73.

The games all end Sunday. I'll post the final medal count then (as if anyone cares lol, there's a number of Asian nations participating so I thought it'd be of interest), though apparently Egypt has more than double the gold and total medals of the second place country (Tunisia), so it'll be impossible (short of mass disqualification) to lose. Algeria is third and Morocco is now 4th.

The disappointment of the tournament has probably been Saudi Arabia (8th in total medals). War-stricken Iraq is crushing KSA with 63 medals compared to Saudi's 39.

[IranSoccer#8]

Is Al-Qahtani playing on saudi?

[Pharaoh]

Is Al-Qahtani playing on saudi?

Yup, he scored Saudi's lone goal today from the penalty spot. The Saudis and Libyans brought their full first teams. Egypt wins gold in football.

Egypt 2:1 Saudi Arabia

[Suprah]

I now expect Saudi FA to immediately sack the national team manager for failing to win this tournament

and the see-saw continues in Saudi football