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Will Julian Khazzouh play in the Lebanese basketball league?
There are some things in this country that are meant to never be understood. Things like whether sports players who have earlier played in the Israeli leagues are allowed to play in Lebanon or not.
The basketball player you see in the photo above is Julian Khazzouh, a Lebanese who was born in Australia where he played for the Sydney Kings in addition to some other Europan teams and Israel’s Ironi Ramat Gan. He also recently joined the Sagesse squad and is supposed to start playing for them starting the upcoming season.
Now you all know it was made clear last year that foreign players who previously received a work permit in Israel are not allowed to play for the Lebanese sports club.
However, Julian Khazzouh used his Australian passport to play for the Israel team, but started using the Lebanese ID he already has when he came here, and practically the law doesn’t apply to him anymore since it just mentions foreign players!
Moreover, it’s very clear for the Lebanese that traveling to Israel or dealing with Israelis is against the law, yet the Lebanese Basketball Federation is still to this moment going in discussions to decide whether Khazzouh will be given a permit to play or not! How on earth is this a hard case to solve?!
What’s even more shameful than Sagesse signing this guy is reading people like Elie Mechantaf defending him!
“We solved the issue with the Lebanese judiciary, as he [Khazzouh] played in Israel with his Australian passport,” Sagesse’s former captain and current president Elie Mchantaf said.
“[Khazzouh] has now regained Lebanese nationality and the law does not prevent him from playing here.
“We are working lawfully regarding this issue, and I assure everyone that he will be present in Sagesse’s first game of the season,” he added. Source
Abdo Feghali testing for Rally of Lebanon 2012
Update:
You can check live results on the Rally of Lebanon official website.
Andrea Paoli advances to quarter finals
Andrea Paoli who’s representing Lebanon in Taekwondo in the 2012 Olympic games won against Nidia Munoz from Cuba today morning and is now one game away from the medals now that she has advanced to the quarter finals.
Her upcoming game today isn’t going to be an easy one though, since she’ll be competing with Tseng Li-Cheng from Taipei, who was ranked first in the 2012 Asian championships.
All the luck to Andrea!
Update:
Andrea unfortunately lost 2-5 to Tseng Li-Cheng.
Red Bull Car Park Drift Lebanon 2012
Do they all suck or what?!
Wassim Nasser FAILED to break the national record
I earlier posted this video by Saida TV claiming that Wassim Nasser did succeed to break the national record by swimming for 47 kilometers from Saida to Beirut while in fact he actually failed and will be trying to do it once again next year.
“The weather was not good at all and Wassim [Nasser] was swimming against the wind,” Intanious Naafa, Nasser’s friend and representative, told The Daily Star Monday.
Nasser’s aimed to break a record set by Abdel-Latif Abu al-Hauf for swimming 42 kilometers from the southern city of Sidon to Beirut in the 1960s.
He sought to cover 47 kilometers.
The athlete’s route started from a point parallel to Sidon’s Crusader Castle and ended in Ramlet al-Bayda; 8 kilometers less than his original goal.
“Wassim will increase the distance next year and hopefully achieve his goal,” Naafa said, praising his friend for his persistence and great effort in achieving such a task. Source
Still, reaching Ramlet El-Bayda is still quite impressive!
Wassim Nasser did it!
Congratulations! I bet he’s going to be sleeping for a week now!
The video turned out to be false. Wassim actually failed to break the record, you can read more about it here.