UAE’s first woman athlete in Olympic Games arrives in Beijing

By NNN-WAM,

Beijing : Determined to win, the first woman athlete of the UAE participating in the Olympic Games, Sheikha Maitha bint Mohammed has arrived in the Chinese capital.


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She is the only UAE athlete participating in the 67 kg category of taekwondo in the Beijing Olympiad.

“I am honoured and excited to have been selected as a member ofthe UAE Olympic team for the Beijing Olympiad and I will do my best to make my motherland proud,” said Sheikha Maitha, daughter of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, before heading for China.

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