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News
Sheikh Saoud meets International
Fencing Federation’s Farber
Chairman
of the Qatar Fencing Federation (QFF) Sheikh Saoud Bin
Abdulrhaman Al-Thani, who is also the General Secretary
of the Qatar National Olympics Committee (QNOC),
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held
a meeting here yesterday with Jochen Farber, media
head of the Federation Internationale D`Escrime
(FIE), currently on a Doha visit. During the meeting,
they discussed about preparations being made by
Qatar to host the fencing World Cup in January
2004. Farber said he was pleased to see the preparations
made so far to host the international event which
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the first-ever to be held in a Gulf state. The event,
which will feature only epee, is set to attract fencers
from 35 countries with 26 already signed including Germany,
France, Switzerland, Hungary, Italy, Korea. Doha World
Cup is also one of the qualifying stages for the Athens
Olympics.
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