{"id":2996,"date":"2016-12-20T00:39:10","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T00:39:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-12-20T00:39:10","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T00:39:10","slug":"uae-swimmer-chosen-as-olympic-flag-bearer-and-shes-only-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/lifestyle\/sports\/uae-swimmer-chosen-as-olympic-flag-bearer-and-shes-only-18\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE Swimmer Chosen As Olympic Flag Bearer And She&#8217;s Only 18!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"c-adunit c-adunit--mpu\">\n<div id=\"mpu\" class=\"c-adunit__container\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hopefully this will be the first of many good news stories for the UAE Olympic team over the next month as the Rio Olympics 2016 kicks off in Brazil on the 6th of August.\u00a0Nada al Bedwawi, 18, has been chosen as the frist Emirati Swimmer to bear the Olympic flag, there are 5 swimmers chosen in total.\u00a0She told Sport 360.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>&#8216;It&#8217;s such an honor&#8217;<\/h3>\n<blockquote class=\"content__quote\">\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m very shocked and I\u2019m very excited and I\u2019m really thankful for their trust in me to be the nation\u2019s flag-bearer, . . . I didn\u2019t know who was going to carry the flag, I thought it was going to be Sheikh Saeed (Al Maktoum). I was reading an article that asked \u2018will there be a female flag-bearer this year, or not?\u2019 It\u2019s just amazing, I\u2019m the first female swimmer and now I\u2019m the flag-bearer too. It\u2019s such an honor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><cite>Nada al Bedwawi\u200b<\/cite>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"c-adunit c-adunit--mpu_mid\">\n<div id=\"mpu_mid\" class=\"c-adunit__container\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>&#8216;I thank the nation&#8217;s trust in me to be the UAE&#8217;s flag bearer at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games!!!&#8217;<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p><center><\/center><\/p>\n<h3>UAE Olympic team in Full<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<strong>Athletics:\u00a0<\/strong>Betlhem Belayneh (1,500m),\u00a0Alia Saeed (10,000m) and\u00a0Saud Al Zaabi (1,500m) Cycling:\u00a0Yousif Mirza (road race)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>\n<strong>Judo:\u00a0<\/strong>Victor Scvortov (Men\u2019s 73 kg), Sergiu Toma (Men\u2019s 81 kg) and Ivan Remarenco (Men\u2019s 100 kg)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>\n<strong>Shooting:\u00a0<\/strong>Sheikh Saeed Al Maktoum (Skeet), Saif bin Futtais (Skeet) and Khalid Al Kaabi (Double Trap)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>\n<strong>Swimming:\u00a0<\/strong>Nadal Al Bedwawi (50m freestyle) and Yaaqoub Al Saadi (100m backstroke)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>\n<strong>Weightlifting:\u00a0<\/strong>Aisha Al Balushi (58kg)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hopefully this will be the first of many good news stories for the UAE Olympic team over the next month as the Rio Olympics 2016 kicks off in Brazil on the 6th of August.\u00a0Nada al Bedwawi, 18, has been chosen as the frist Emirati Swimmer to bear the Olympic flag, there are 5 swimmers chosen &hellip; ","protected":false},"author":451,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"acf":{"legacy_image":"https:\/\/cloud.lovindubai.com\/images\/uploads\/2016\/07\/_relatedEntryImage2x\/NCS_modified20140731120104MaxW640imageVersiondefaultAR-312069960.jpg?mtime=20160727101855","legacy_full_image":"https:\/\/cloud.lovindubai.com\/images\/uploads\/2016\/07\/_featuredImage\/NCS_modified20140731120104MaxW640imageVersiondefaultAR-312069960.jpg?mtime=20160727101855 880w","legacy_meta_tags":"<title>UAE Swimmer Chosen As Olympic Flag Bearer And She's Only 18! - Lovin Dubai<\/title><meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hopefully this will be the first of many good news stories for the UAE Olympic team over the next month as the Rio Olympics 2016 kicks off in Brazil on the 6th of August. 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