right here we are in 2022. We were all expecting lots of things to change, as well as it seems we are all still stuck with the exact same problems we had last year. The pandemic is still affecting our everyday lives, travelling is still challenging, as well as every nation is going with patterns of openings as well as lockdowns. While science continues to development as well as supplies even strong evidence that the vaccines are working (for a listing of all trials as well as authorized vaccines, you can go here), sport keeps moving. yesterday Beijing had the opening ceremony of the wintertime Olympics, as well as competitions have already started. I have to state that it was a bit surreal for me to look at the birds’ nest as the opening venue, considering that the last time I was in the stadium it was for the Beijing 2008 summertime Olympics.
The environment was always electric in the bird’s nest in 2008
Heading to the stadium in 2008 with team GB
China has handled to be one of the few countries in the world able to organise both ‘versions’ of the Olympic Games: summertime as well as wintertime as well as I am sure we will see once again extraordinary performances as well as amazing stories. However, organising an Olympic games edition during a pandemic is not easy, as well as unfortunately I have seen already a number of athletes, coaches as well as support personnel not able to reach China because of a positive COVID test. The normal concern before each Olympic edition is: who is going to win the most medals?
Gracenote is predicting one more domination of Norway, as well as a close battle between Canada as well as USA for the 4th location with Germany as well as Russia predicted to occupy the 2nd as well as 3rd location in the medal table. I believe this will be a extremely unpredictable edition of the wintertime Olympics considering that nobody truly understands what is going to occur with COVID in spite of all limitations in place. 308 situations have been reported so far in the Olympic bubble, as well as situations are likely to rise. I will compose a lot more about the results in the next few days.
Work-wise, it has been a quite hectic few months complying with the FIFA Arab cup, we are getting prepared to support the world cup in November this year. So, the next few months will be for sure quite hard. regrettably the terrific 7th AFC medical seminar had to be delayed to 2023 because of che difficulties of the Omicron variant. However, we are positive that next year we can resume this excellent event as well as welcome the sports medicine neighborhood back in Qatar with a amazing conference.
Research activities, jobs as well as dissemination of scientific findings are progressing well in spite of all the challenges. Aspetar has published 139 scientific papers this year thanks likewise to the substantial partnership network with colleagues around the World. This was just recently reported in different media outlets in the region in addition to on Al Kass TV as well as it is excellent to be part of such an interesting neighborhood in Aspire zone Foundation. If you have not seen any type of of our events yet, you can gain access to them recorded on our You Tube channel here. keep enjoying this area for a lot more research study news as we have lots of papers under evaluation at the moment on lots of topics as well as a special problem of the Aspetar sports medicine Journal.
There is regrettably something extremely unfortunate to report. Last month a dear associate as well as good friend passed away. Prof. Kevin Tipton is not with us anymore. other colleagues have written amazing tributes to Kevin, so I will prevent doing it here. However, I would like to state that Kevin was not only an extraordinary scientist however likewise a extremely humble as well as generous human being. He composed a amazing chapter for the stamina as well as conditioning book I edited with Rob Newton as well as Ken Nosaka as well as he leaves an impressive legacy. We will all miss you Tipper, thanks for the memories as well as your impressive research.
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