{"id":160,"date":"2010-02-16T16:20:48","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T20:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/?p=160"},"modified":"2010-02-16T16:20:48","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T20:20:48","slug":"vancouver-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/vancouver-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\">Five days ago, the Winter Olympics (<span style=\"font-size: 14pt\" dir=\"rtl\">\u062f\u0648\u0631\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0644\u0639\u0627\u0628 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0648\u0644\u0645\u0628\u064a\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0634\u062a\u0648\u064a\u0629<\/span>) started in Vancouver, Canada. This event has attracted a great deal of attention worldwide, but not so much in the Arab world. There are only 3 Arab countries present in Vancouver Morocco (<span style=\"font-size: 14pt\" dir=\"rtl\">\u0627\u0644\u0645\u063a\u0631\u0628<\/span>), Algeria (<span style=\"font-size: 14pt\" dir=\"rtl\">\u0627\u0644\u062c\u0632\u0627\u0626\u0631<\/span>) and Lebanon <span>(<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\" dir=\"rtl\">\u0644\u0628\u0646\u0627\u0646<\/span><span>). There are 5 athletes (<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\" dir=\"rtl\">\u062e\u0645\u0633\u0629 \u0631\u064a\u0627\u0636\u064a\u064a\u0646<\/span><span>)<\/span> from the three countries; two of them are women. The weak Arab representation is understandable because the weather in Arab countries is dry, desert and warm. There is not much opportunity for winter sports (<span style=\"font-size: 14pt\" dir=\"rtl\">\u0627\u0644\u0623\u0644\u0639\u0627\u0628 \u0627\u0644\u0634\u062a\u0648\u064a\u0629<\/span>) to flourish. <span>In fact, most of these sports do not even have Arabic names because they are not practiced in the Arab world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/skibutternut.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/vancouver-2010-mascots3-thumb-500x436-8995.jpg\" aria-label=\"Vancouver 2010 Mascots3 Thumb 500x436 8995\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: bottom\"  alt=\"Vancouver 2010\" width=\"425\" height=\"371\" \/ src=\"http:\/\/skibutternut.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/vancouver-2010-mascots3-thumb-500x436-8995.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span>I wonder whether Arab countries could start the Desert <\/span>Olympics (<span style=\"font-size: 14pt\" dir=\"rtl\">\u062f\u0648\u0631\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0644\u0639\u0627\u0628 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0648\u0644\u0645\u0628\u064a\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0635\u062d\u0631\u0627\u0648\u064a\u0629<\/span>) <span>in the near future! Do you think that this can really happen?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"306\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2010\/02\/vancouver-2010-mascots3-thumb-500x436-8995-350x306.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2010\/02\/vancouver-2010-mascots3-thumb-500x436-8995-350x306.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2010\/02\/vancouver-2010-mascots3-thumb-500x436-8995.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Five days ago, the Winter Olympics (\u062f\u0648\u0631\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0644\u0639\u0627\u0628 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0648\u0644\u0645\u0628\u064a\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0634\u062a\u0648\u064a\u0629) started in Vancouver, Canada. This event has attracted a great deal of attention worldwide, but not so much in the Arab world. There are only 3 Arab countries present in Vancouver Morocco (\u0627\u0644\u0645\u063a\u0631\u0628), Algeria (\u0627\u0644\u062c\u0632\u0627\u0626\u0631) and Lebanon (\u0644\u0628\u0646\u0627\u0646). There are 5 athletes (\u062e\u0645\u0633\u0629 \u0631\u064a\u0627\u0636\u064a\u064a\u0646) from&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/vancouver-2010\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":12329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3531,3582],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-arabic","tag-vancouver-2010"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}