It is the final few days of the Tokyo Olympics. Here are the athletes from the Mena region in action on Friday.
Artistic Swimming
Tokyo Aquatics Centre
Competing in the technical routine, Egypt will be looking to improve on their seventh-placed finished in both London 2012 and Rio 2016.
Athletics
Tokyo Olympic Stadium
Huge finals day in the Olympic Stadium with medals to be won in the women’s 20km race walk, 400m, 1,500m, the men’s 50k race walk and 5,000m and the men’s and women’s 4x100m relay finals.
Two Bahrainis will be running in the final of the men’s 5,000m. Birhanu Balew just made the cut in his qualifying heat and Dawit Fikadu was advanced into the final following a referee decision after he fell in his heat.
Not from the Mena region, but well worth looking out for the Netherlands' Sifan Hassan in the women’s 1,500m as she attempts to take her second middle distance gold medal, after winning the 5,000m. She will also be running in the 10,000m final on Saturday.
Canoe Sprint
Sea Forest Waterway
Look out for 2019 African Games Champion Ghailene Khattali of Tunisia who will competing in the fifth heat of the men’s canoe single 1,000m.
Diving
Tokyo Aquatics Centre
Mohab Ishak of Egypt finished 11th in the men’s 3m springboard competition. Today he will be looking to improve on his Rio finish (28th) in the 10m platform preliminary round.
Equestrian
Equestrian Park
Teams from Israel, Morocco and Egypt will be riding for top 10 places in the final of the Jumping Team event.
Karate
Nippon Budokan
In the women’s Kumite -61kg competition, Giana Lotfy of Egypt and Btissam Sadini of Morocco will be competing in the same pool and eventually against each other.
Abdalla Abdelaziz will be representing Egypt in the men’s Kumite -75kg competition.
Meanwhile in the Kata, Sayed Almosawi of Kuwait and Syrian Wael Sueb (representing the Refugee Olympic Team) will be competing.
In the women’s Kumite -55kg class, Sara Bahmanyar of Iran and Egypt’s Radwa Sayed will be sparring in different pools throughout the evening session.
Rhythmic Gymnastics
Ariake Gymnastics Centre
Rhythmic gymnastics begins today in the Ariake Centre.
Nicol Zelikman and Linoy Ashram of Israel and Habiba Marzouk of Egypt will all be taking to the floor with the hoop, ball, ribbon and clubs.
Wrestling - various
Mukahari Messe
Plenty more action from Mena wrestlers in Mukahari Messe today.
Amir Hossein Zare of Iran will be competing in a bronze medal match of the 125kg, where he could face Egypt’s Diaaeldin Abdelmottaleb.
In the women’s freestyle 50kg competition, Tunisia's Sarra Hamdi will be facing India’s Seema Seema in the opening round of elimination.
Meanwhile, Mohamed Fardj of Algeria will take on Alisher Yergali of Kazakhstan in the first round of the men’s freestyle 97kg.
Tunisia’s Haithem Dakhlaoui and Morteza Cheka from Iran will be facing one another in the first of the elimination rounds in the men’s freestyle 65kg class.
Going grey? A stylist's advice
If you’re going to go grey, a great style, well-cared for hair (in a sleek, classy style, like a bob), and a young spirit and attitude go a long way, says Maria Dowling, founder of the Maria Dowling Salon in Dubai.
It’s easier to go grey from a lighter colour, so you may want to do that first. And this is the time to try a shorter style, she advises. Then a stylist can introduce highlights, start lightening up the roots, and let it fade out. Once it’s entirely grey, a purple shampoo will prevent yellowing.
“Get professional help – there’s no other way to go around it,” she says. “And don’t just let it grow out because that looks really bad. Put effort into it: properly condition, straighten, get regular trims, make sure it’s glossy.”
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Pharaoh's curse
British aristocrat Lord Carnarvon, who funded the expedition to find the Tutankhamun tomb, died in a Cairo hotel four months after the crypt was opened.
He had been in poor health for many years after a car crash, and a mosquito bite made worse by a shaving cut led to blood poisoning and pneumonia.
Reports at the time said Lord Carnarvon suffered from “pain as the inflammation affected the nasal passages and eyes”.
Decades later, scientists contended he had died of aspergillosis after inhaling spores of the fungus aspergillus in the tomb, which can lie dormant for months. The fact several others who entered were also found dead withiin a short time led to the myth of the curse.
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