Dr. Abdul Rahman bin Mohammad bin Nasser Al Owais, Minister of Health and Prevention, Deputy Chairman of the National Olympic Committee, today called Brigadier Abdul Malik Jani, head of the UAE delegation to the sixth Children of Asia International Sports Games, to ensure that the UAE participating teams are in good shape and that their needs are all fulfilled.
Meanwhile, the UAE table tennis men's double team beat Kazakhstan's team 3-2 qualifying for the semi-finals to face Hong Kong.
The UAE women's table tennis team lost to the Russian team with 3-0.
Eighty-two athletes from the UAE are participating in table tennis, archery, swimming and taekwondo competitions.
Forty-five countries are participating in this year's Children of Asia International Sports Games which are held every four years since 1996 in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia).
The 2016 games dubbed Yakutsk 2016 are being held from 5th–17th in the city of Yakutsk.
