Girls competing alongside boys in sport… a natural step
Mai Al Mohammadi, board member and head of the federation’s women’s athletics department, praised the positive step by the Gulf mother of games event in launching the era of women’s participation alongside young men. She said it was natural and long overdue, but that the time had come to keep pace with the spirit of the age and the regulations of the international federation of the sport. She wished success to Qatar’s national team and to the sister delegations from Kuwait and Oman, and described the championship as historic, considering it a foundation for a new stage in the sporting performance of Gulf women
