Rio Olympics was like cold war, says Efimova

Russian jeered by crowd, rivals Bridge Results

MOSCOW, Aug 24, (RTRS): Russian Yulia Efimova, who won two Olympic silver medals this month after being cleared to compete in Rio following a doping ban, has compared swimming in the Games to being at war.

Initially excluded from the event because of her doping record, the 24-yearold won a last-minute legal challenge to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) and finished second in the 100 and 200 metres breaststroke in Brazil.

Results of the Bi-weekly Bridge Tournament played on Aug 10.

1. Mihai/Maher Aidi; 2. Mustafa Saad/Abdul Salam Ibrahim; 3. Ebrahim Al-Qattan/ Ahmad Saleh Al-Roumi; 4. Ahmed Alruaweh/Naela Abu Hantash; 5. Siobhan Doran/ Samia Boukhris; 6. Sood Al-Tatan/Bader Al-Refaee.

We conduct duplicate Bridge tournament every Sunday and Wednesday at 19:30 hours at ‘The Graduates Club’, next to Kuwait Engineering Society. Interested Bridge pairs or individual players please contact Mohammed Merchant, Tel: 24815622/24841158/99612287.