Al Mana honoured in Tashkent as Asian Youth and Junior Weightlifting …

Doha, Qatar The Asian Youth and Junior Weightlifting Championships 2026 is currently underway in Tashkent yesterday and will run until August 14, with more than 300 weightlifters from 29 countries taking part.

The opening ceremony at the Olympic City of Tashkent was attended by officials, sports figures and representatives of national and international federations. Mohammed Yousef Al Mana, First Vice President of the Qatar Olympic Committee and President of the Qatar, Arab, Asian and Afro-Asian Weightlifting Federations, stressed the importance of youth and junior championships in developing future champions and providing young athletes with valuable international experience.

Earlier, Al Mana also chaired the Asian Weightlifting Federation Executive Office meeting at the Uzbek Ministry of Sports. It was attended by members of the executive office and leaders of the sports movement in Uzbekistan, headed by Uzbek Minister of Sports H E Adham Ikramov and Oybek Kasimov, Secretary General of the Uzbek National Olympic Committee. amunra-online.pl

The meeting discussed the future of the sport, upcoming competitions and preparations for the 2027 Asian Champi onships in South Korea, which will form part of the qualification process for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games.

On the sidelines, Uzbek Minister of Sports H E Adham Ikramov awarded Al Mana the Ministry’s honorary medal, “Excellence in Physical Culture and Sports”, in recognition of his contribution to the development of weightlifting in Asia.

HEALTHY RUNNERS GET FASTER

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The story of how Izzi Batt-Doyle turned seven stress fractures into one
of Australia's greatest comeback stories.

Meet Izzi Batt-Doyle

If you've followed Australian distance running over the last few years,
chances are you've heard the name Izzi Batt-Doyle.

Two-time Olympian

Australian Half Marathon Record Holder

Gold Coast Half Marathon Champion

Sunshine Coast Half Marathon Champion

Today, Izzi is one of Australia's fastest distance runners. But getting
here wasn't easy. And over the past month alone, she has continued one
of the best stretches of racing in her career winning the Gold Coast
Half Marathon in 1:07:29, the fastest half marathon ever run by an
Australian woman on Australian soil, before following it up just weeks
later with another victory at the Sunshine Coast Half Marathon in
1:08:49.

Looking at those results, it's easy to assume the difference is simply
talent. But that isn't the story. The real story began years earlier.

SEVEN STRESS FRACTURES CHANGED EVERYTHING

Before becoming one of Australia's fastest runners, Izzi battled 7
stress fractures in her feet. Bone stress injuries are some of the most
frustrating setbacks a runner can experience. They don't just stop you
from racing they stop you from doing the one thing that makes you
better: running.

Like many runners, Izzi faced the same question countless injured
athletes ask themselves:

"How do I maintain my fitness without continuing to overload my body?"

During college she had access to resources that many runners never do.

- She spent hours aqua jogging.

- She trained on the elliptical.

- Medical professionals.

- She relied heavily on her university's AlterG treadmill, allowing her
to continue running while reducing the impact on healing bones.

Those tools kept her aerobic engine alive while her body recovered.

But after graduation, those resources were no longer available. The
challenge became finding a practical way to manage training load while
continuing to run not just during injuries, but as part of an elite
training program built on consistency.

WHY RECOVERY ISN'T JUST FOR INJURED RUNNERS

One of the biggest misconceptions in running is that reducing impact is
only useful when you're hurt. Elite runners think differently. Recovery
isn't a break from training. Recovery is training. The goal isn't to
avoid hard work. The goal is to recover well enough that tomorrow's
workout can be just as productive as today's.

Every unnecessary day missed because of soreness, fatigue, or injury is
a day of fitness that can't be built. That's why many of the world's
best runners are becoming more intentional about managing load not
because they're injured, but because they want to stay healthy enough to
continue improving.

A TOOL IZZI WISHES SHE'D HAD EARLIER

Today, LEVER has become one of the tools Izzi uses to help manage that
training load. Whether she's recovering after a marathon, adding easy
aerobic volume, or simply reducing impact during higher mileage weeks,
LEVER allows her to continue running while placing less stress on her
body.

As Izzi shared:

- "A tool I wish I'd had during my stress fracture days."

- "The LEVER makes it easy to reduce impact while continuing to run,
whether you're returning from injury, recovering from a marathon, or
simply looking to train smarter."

- "The goal is always the same: get to the start line healthy and
ready."

That last sentence may be the most important. Because every runner from
first-time 5K participants to Olympians is chasing the same goal. To
arrive healthy.

WHAT EVERY RUNNER CAN LEARN

You don't need to run 100-mile weeks to benefit from training smarter.
Whether you're preparing for your first marathon or trying to set a new
personal best, your body only adapts when it has the opportunity to
recover.

Here are three ways runners are using LEVER to make that happen.

1. Extend Your Running Career

Many runners don't stop because they lose motivation. They stop because
repeated injuries make consistent training impossible. Reducing impact
on selected runs can help decrease the cumulative stress placed on
bones, tendons, muscles, and joints over months of training.

Sometimes staying healthy is the fastest path to getting faster.

2. RECOVER WITHOUT LOSING FITNESS

After a marathon or demanding workout, your body still benefits from
movement. Instead of replacing running with cross-training, LEVER allows
you to continue running with less mechanical loading while maintaining
your natural stride.

- You keep moving.

- You keep adapting.

- You recover faster for the next quality session.

3. BUILD MORE AEROBIC VOLUME

Running economy improves through repetition. But every mile also adds
stress to your body. LEVER allows runners to increase aerobic work while
reducing impact, making it easier to build volume without asking the
body to absorb the full load every single day.

More quality training. Less unnecessary pounding.

CONSISTENCY IS THE REAL PERFORMANCE ADVANTAGE

Izzi's recent performances weren't built in one month. They were built
over years of making the right decision, over and over again.

Recovering when it mattered. Reducing impact when needed. Protecting
long-term health instead of chasing short-term mileage.

The fastest runners aren't always the ones who train the hardest.
They're the ones who stay healthy enough to keep training. That's the
lesson behind Izzi's journey. And it's the opportunity every runner has
to train smarter, stay consistent, and arrive at the start line healthy
and ready.

SHOP LEVER

Darwin, Australia: Bangladesh folded for just 54 Saturday to lose their only warm-up game ahead of a two-Test series against top-ranked Australia by an innings and 38 runs.

The tourists were skittled by young quick Campbell Thompson, who claimed a stunning 8-25 off 11 overs as a Cricket Australia XI romped to victory before lunch on the third and final day in Darwin.

It does not bode well for Bangladesh, who face a full-strength Australia spearheaded by pace trio Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood in the same city next week.

Opener Tanzid Hasan was the only batter to reach double figures with 22.

Bangladesh made 263 in their first innings with the CA XI responding with 355.

"To clean it up this morning, I had a clear process -- just try to use the new ball, swing it and hit the stumps," said 22-year-old Thompson, who had played just one previous first-class match.

"I was lucky enough to get a few wickets."

أكد المدرب الأرجنتيني لأتلتيكو مدريد الإسباني دييغو سيميوني تمسكه بخدمات مواطنه المهاجم الدولي خوليان ألفاريس وعدم السماح له بالرحيل خلال فترة الانتقالات الحالية، رغم اهتمام برشلونة بضمه.
وتقدم أتلتيكو الشهر الماضي بشكوى إلى الاتحاد الدولي لكرة القدم (فيفا) ضد برشلونة، متهما النادي الكاتالوني بمحاولة التواصل مع ألفاريس بشكل غير قانوني.
وقال سيميوني للصحفيين عشية المباراة الودية التحضيرية للموسم الجديد أمام مانشستر سيتي الإنجليزي في سيول «أعتقد أن الوضع واضح جدا. النادي اتخذ قرارا شرحه (الرئيس التنفيذي) ميغيل أنخيل (خيل مارين) بشكل جيد جدا».
وأضاف «من الناحية الرياضية، نحن سعداء جدا بوجود لاعب مثل خوليان... سنساعده على مواصلة التطور والتحسن والاستمرار في تقديم أفضل ما لديه، وهو بالفعل قدّم لنا الكثير خلال العامين الماضيين».

في مشهد أعاد ذكريات كأس العالم قطر 2022، حضرت ملامح المونديال القطري بقوة في مدرجات مباراة العنابي أمام سويسرا ضمن منافسات كأس العالم 2026. وبين آلاف المشجعين، برز مواطن أمريكي مرتدياً الزي القطري التقليدي، معلناً دعمه لمنتخب قطر ومثيراً إعجاب الجماهير التي تفاعلت مع ظهوره اللافت.

ولم يتوقف الحنين إلى مونديال قطر عند هذا الحد، إذ ظهر أحد المشجعين مرتدياً شخصية لعيب، التعويذة الرسمية للبطولة التي استضافتها قطر، في لقطة استحضرت ذكريات النسخة التي خطفت أنظار العالم وحققت نجاحاً استثنائياً على مختلف الأصعدة.

اللافت أن الزي القطري كان حاضراً بقوة بين الجماهير من مختلف الجنسيات، حيث تحول إلى رمز ثقافي يلفت الانتباه في الملاعب العالمية، بعدما نجحت قطر خلال استضافتها للمونديال في تقديم صورة مشرقة عن هويتها وتراثها أمام مليارات المتابعين حول العالم.

وتجمع عدد كبير من الجماهير حول المشجعين الذين ارتدوا الزي القطري ولعيب لالتقاط الصور التذكارية، في مشهد يعكس استمرار التأثير الذي تركه مونديال قطر في ذاكرة عشاق كرة القدم. فبعد سنوات من إسدال الستار على البطولة، ما زالت رموزها حاضرة في أكبر المحافل الكروية، لتؤكد أن إرث قطر تجاوز حدود التنظيم الرياضي ووصل إلى وجدان الجماهير.

ومع انطلاق مشوار العنابي في مونديال 2026، بدا واضحاً أن قطر لا تزال حاضرة في المشهد العالمي، ليس فقط من خلال منتخبها الوطني، بل أيضاً عبر الإرث الثقافي والإنساني الذي خلفته بطولة 2022، والتي ما زالت تُلهم الجماهير وتستحضر أجمل الذكريات أينما أقيمت مباريات كأس العالم.