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Africa tour Follow Martin and Sarah- A Zimbabwean couple with more courage than sense as they drive from Dubai through Oman and Yemen into Ethiopia and all the way down the East Coast to Capetown camping on the top of their 4x4 as they go! They're raising money and awareness for AIDS orphans in Zimbabwe and making a tv series and documentary as they go!
Computer giant, Acer, takes their technology off the track and into your car. Manila Chansmouth gets a Middle East exclusive at Acer’s International Conference in London.
Motor-heads the world over know that PC giant Acer is a byword in auto sports, particularly through its former sponsorship of Ferrari’s Formula One and more recently involvement with Ford.
BEST OF CHECKMATES Exclusive from John MacDonald
It’s hard to imagine Roger Federer sitting across a chessboard with Rafael Nadal on the eve of a Grand Slam final.
Africa odyssey By Sarah Kilalea
When we last checked in we were powering through Oman in our solar yellow Nissan xterra, enjoying the pristine salalah roads and camping on the white
MAN OF IRON By Philip Moore
Faris Al Sultan has come a long way since he rode his bike from Al Ain to Dubai, slept on the beach, then competed in a triathlon next morning.
IT AIN’T HALF HOT! By Russell Bray
A few weekends ago I discovered how the other half lives, or more accurately races.
I was a guest of Lamborghini at the ultra-fast
RUGBY MEETS RALLY Abu Dhabi’s Khalid Al Qasimi has finished out of the points Down Under but he has won the admiration of a sporting great – rugby legend Tim Horan.
QATAR JOINS THE FIFA ELITE Qatar is set to become the Gulf’s leading centre of sports medicine excellence and a first choice for top international performers seeking to overcome injury or achieve peak fitness.
Wake.y! Wake.y! Forget the posers on jet skis. Leave water-skiing to the timid. It’s time to make way for wakeboarding – the world’s fastest-growing watersport and a thrill-a-minute stunt orgy for participants and spectators.
Beckham and Kaka Inspire Qatari hopefuls David Beckham, Kaka, Ronaldinho, Paolo Maldini, Andrei Shevchenko, Andrea Perlo, and Filippo Inzaghi, along with their AC Milan team-mates and
WELL ARMED FASTEST GUN The stars overhead were covered by the storm clouds but on the turf at Nad Al Sheba none shone brighter than World Cup winner Well Armed, once injured so badly he should have been put down
PAIR OF KINGS Marriage, a change of clubs and returning to the happy hunting ground of the Abu Dhabi course where the giant falcon dominates the landscape, has put England’s Paul Casey back in the winner’s
Irish eyes smile on Al Qassimi
When BP-Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team’s Shaikh Khalid Al Qassimi snared eighth place in Rally Ireland he became the first UAE driver to score an FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) drivers’ point.
High Times
The Red Bull Air Race World Series is set for take-off in Abu Dhabi. This will be the fifth year in a row that the extraordinary event has been staged in the capital.
All at sea
Everything in Cape Town that could float seemed to be occupying the waters of Table Bay. From heavily-armed naval vessels to rubber dinghies, power cruisers to multi-hulls under sail, even a brave soul
