ARAB TIMES, TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2016

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Relief from medical conditions, health benefits offered Leading Swiss medical shoes, KyBoot, launched in Kuwait

KUWAIT CITY, May 30: Millennium Medical Group launched KyBoot, a leading Swiss based medical-shoe brand in Kuwait Rehm hopeful on Tuesday under the patronage and in the presence of HE the Swiss Ambassador to Kuwait, Aldo De Luca. The event was also Rio City planning attended by the inventor of the KyBoot, Karl Muller, and his team. The branch is located at Dalal Complex in Salem Al ticket give-away Mubarak Street, Salmiya. The medical KyBoot shoes’ — walking RIO DE JANEIRO, May 30, (AP): on air — is designed in accordance with the Tickets sales for the Rio de Janeiro highest medical standards using unique Paralympic Games are lagging, but light-weight substance to provide not only they are getting a big boost from an comfort and easy movement, but also health unexpected source — the city of benefits. The technology uses an air pillow Rio de Janeiro. in the base of the shoes made of polyure- Philip Craven, the head of the thane with advanced features, locking air International Paralympic bubbles in it. The air pillow is flexible in Committee , told The Associated order to give you the perfect movement. Press in an interview that 33 per- Speaking at the event, inventor Karl cent of 2.5 million tickets had been Muller said the feet play an important sold, compared to 67 percent of 6 part in a man’s anatomy for a healthy Karl Muller & ambassador Aldo De Luca with some Millennium A group photo showing Millennium Medical Group board members with the million Olympic tickets. body. “The KyBoot has been designed to Medical Group board members cutting the inauguration ribbon. Swiss ambassador & Karl Muller. He said the stimulate the feet in such a way as to city govern- energize the feet while standing and ment of Rio de walking.” Further he noted that the spe- Janeiro was cial substance used to manufacture buying a large KyBoot is soft and supple and enables the chunk of feet to move effortlessly in comfort, in Paralympic addition to lending strength to the legs. tickets. He Although the shoes are made of soft estimated substance, it has been built to last. Tests about 500,000, have proven their durability through a number the intensive use. city hall The strength-building capacity of the declined to Rehm shoes is attributed to its design which confirm. bears an effect on the leg muscles. In a state- Moreover, feet coordination also ment to AP, it said it was buying improves, which increases walking speed tickets “for students of municipal and the firmness of each step. Wearing schools,” but did not give a num- the Kyboot alters the forces acting on ber. The plans will be announced your ligaments, muscles, tendons and on Monday, the day the countdown joints. This has a positive effect on your clock reaches 100 days for the posture and gait. Paralympics. The launch was attended by the head Two years ago at the World Cup, Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes criticized and board members of Millennium Karl Muller receiving artist Nabeel Shuail, guest at the inauguration Karl Mueller showing the Swiss ambassador the shoe-base-airbag technology. Medical Group, the dealers of KyBoot. Representatives of other international brands and medical doctors from a range tomers many choices in high-quality ser- rently on track for GCC-wide expansion branches to extend its visions and goals KyBoot in Kuwait and is confident about PARALYMPICS of specialties were also present. vices and solutions that are cost-effective, from Kuwait, and is aiming to establish in the health domain. the brand’s success owing to its quality Millennium Medical Group offers its cus- practical and hi-tech. The group is cur- an intricate network of international The group is the sole distributor of and beneficial effects on health. expensive ticket prices that shut out many residents of Rio, which Worried Gasol wants more Zika details ahead of Rio has a stark divide between the rich and poor. Paes promised at the time to give away 1.2 million tickets for the Olympics, but failed to deliver. This is partly because the pur- Farah to focus on racing not ‘Zika’ virus chase price could have reached $10-15 million. Local Olympic organizers said they could not EUGENE, United States, May 30, 2016 awareness and inform about something afford to give away tickets due to a (Agencies): Reigning 10,000 metre that we are not talking enough about tight operating budget that depends Olympics Roundup world champion Mo Farah says predic- and which is a big unknown,” the on ticket-sales income. tions of traffic chaos didn’t ground the 35-year-old told a news conference on The price tag for the Paralympics Olympics to a halt and the Zika Monday. should be much lower, perhaps in virus shouldn’t stop the Rio Games from “The Olympics can be an opportunity the range of $1-2 million. This is Kimani sets for 3rd Oly: She Johnson-Thompson books place: selecting him for next season’s team. being a success. for this virus to spread. I want the health because Paralympic tickets are started running on the plains of her Britain’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson is Now 34, Hudec won downhill silver at The 33-year-old Farah, who is consid- of sportsmen, fans and their families that much cheaper, and the city seems native and today trains in dark relieved after booking her place at the Rio the 2007 world championships before sus- ered the most dominant long distance will travel to Rio to come first. taining knee and back injuries. to be buying far fewer. Balkan forests. Now marathoner Lucia Games in August and says she is setting runner in the world, said he is trying to “It wouldn’t surprise me if certain The Paralympic Games seem to Kimani is set to become Bosnia’s first her sights on a first Olympic He tied with for super-G bronze at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, giving focus on getting ready for the Olympics athletes decided not to take part in order have avoided the problems with athlete to compete in three Olympic gold medal. and not worry about health problems that not to put at risk their health and that of doping that are dogging the games. The 23-year-old accumulated the 6,200 Canada its first Alpine medal in 20 years. points needed for Olympic qualification at He also won two World Cup races. The might arise. their families.” Olympics. Her unusual journey is propelled by “Before the London Olympics there Asked if he was among them, Gasol a love story, which began in 2004. the Hypo-Meeting in Goetzis on Sunday to Canadian team says Hudec’s achievement “We don’t believe we’ve got a Kimani, then 23, was an unknown run- join compatriot Jessica Ennis-Hill in the “is nothing short of remarkable, and we was a lot of things said like ‘they weren’t said: “I am evaluating it like any other major problem in positive doping ner among a number of Kenyans tak- Rio lineup. will continue to embrace Jan as he embarks ready and the traffic was going to be bad’ athlete or person that is considering results, but it’s something we’re ing part in the Salzburg . The Austrian event, won by Canada’s on this next chapter.” (AP) and there was none of that. It was the going to Rio. watching very, very closely,” The amateur footballer and hair and Brianne Theisen-Eaton, was Johnson- ❑ ❑ ❑ best Olympics ever,” said Great Britain’s “Some of my team mates are looking Craven said. beauty student had completed her first Thompson’s first major outing since a knee Farah who plans to take his family mem- to start a family in the near future and The International Olympic operation in October. Anderson, Mellouli win: American marathon a year earlier, “for fun”, on Haley Anderson and Ous Mellouli of bers with him to Brazil. they cannot risk the health of their future Committee announced recently the advice of a cousin. One of eight “The feeling is one of relief more than “All I know is my family and I are all children or wives.” that up to 55 athletes have tested anything else,” she told British media. Tunisia won distance freestyle titles children in a poor family, she finished Sunday night at the Speedo Grand going,” he said after winning his fifth ❑ ❑ ❑ positive for doping in a reanalysis seventh in that debut race and won a “I’ve got a lot to work on between now career 10,000 metre race at the of samples from the past two and then but this is my first time back after Challenge. cash prize. Anderson won the 800-meter free in 8 Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon at The World Health Organization’s Zika Summer Olympics. “That was really motivating, so ... I surgery and I know exactly what I need to the weekend. response programme is only 13 percent work on. minutes, 37.93 seconds to go with the 400 The IOC keeps samples of previ- started training,” she tells AFP. free she won Friday at William Woollett An open letter by 150 doctors and funded, “severely” compromising efforts ous games for 10 years. Also on the track in Salzburg was Johnson-Thompson, who finished sixth to combat the virus that is increasingly at Goetzis with 6,304 points, recorded Aquatic Center. scientists Friday Craven said the IPC only began Sinisa Marcetic, a 19-year-old Mellouli, who trains in Los Angeles, called on officials to becoming a global threat, the UN agency storing samples starting with the three personal bests. (RTRS) said Monday. Bosnian Serb, who had been running ❑ ❑ ❑ won the 1,500 free in 15:13.87. He won shift the Olympic 2012 Paralympics in London. for a decade on the steep pine-forest- event at the 2008 Olympics and Games in Rio de “We have a very, very low count ed slopes of Mrakovica mountain, Walker fails in Rio BMX bid: earned a bronze four years later in London. Janeiro because of OLYMPICS on positive tests,” he said. which dominates his small city of London Olympics BMX silver medallist National team member Katie the Zika virus. “However, our standpoint on this is Prijedor. Sarah Walker has failed to qualify for the McLaughlin won the 200 butterfly in 2:11.35. Anderson finished third in the The letter to the that we fully support the actions of Marcetic had caught the running Rio de Janeiro Games after injury ham- World Health But the significant funding gaps in the the IOC and WADA with regard to bug after a school race in which he tune-up meet for next month’s US pered the New Zealander’s last chance of Organzation, signed $17.7-million (15.9-million-euro) plan the retesting.” finished fourth. He decided he never making the starting line in August. Olympic swimming trials. are not having a major impact on again wanted to finish without a medal The 27-year-old injured her shoulder in Kendyl Stewart, another national team by doctors and ❑ ❑ ❑ member, won the 100 free in 55.89 sec- researchers at lead- Brazil’s efforts to keep the 2016 -- and he dreamt one day of training training at the world championships in Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro safe, Paralympic champion with Kenya’s world-dominating run- Colombia and was only able to finish fifth onds. Stewart won the 50 free Friday and ing universities Gasol 100 fly Saturday. around the world, WHO spokeswoman Nyka Alexander Markus Rehm is still hoping to ners. (AFP) in each of her three qualifying races, fail- told AFP. compete at the Olympics in Rio de ❑ ❑ ❑ ing to advance as one of the final 20 riders Kirsten Vose, who won the 200 individ- expressed worry making it to the quarter-finals. ual medley Friday, was second in the 100 that officials are not adequately protect- The UN agency last week rejected a Janeiro despite a scientific study’s Wood eyes Olympic teams: She had needed to finish as one of the free after earlier taking second in the 200 ing the public against the danger posed call from 150 international doctors to inconclusive findings on whether England’s Chris Wood is eyeing a spot top two racers who had not already quali- breaststroke. Jessica Hardy finished eighth by Zika. WHO has since rejected the change the timing or location of the Rio his carbon-fiber prosthesis gives in the Ryder Cup and the Olympics in fied for Rio at the championships. overall in the 100 free after failing to idea of moving or postponing the Games. Games, with Brazil the country hardest him an unfair advantage over able- Rio de Janeiro after his win in the Walker, who finished fourth at the advance to the four-woman “A’’ flight of “I don’t think they will do that,” Farah hit by the Zika outbreak. bodied athletes. European PGA Championship at Beijing Games, has been plagued by injury the fastest swimmers. (AP) WHO said that shifting the Games Wolfgang Potthast of the ❑ ❑ ❑ said of moving the Games. “As an ath- Wentworth on Sunday. since the last Olympics and needed surgery lete I don’t want to think about anything would not substantially alter the risks of German Sport University in Wood put himself in the frame for a to fix a badly broken arm suffered while Theisen-Eaton win Hypo meeting: other than I am going to be racing. My Zika spreading globally, but has urged Cologne said Monday that it was place in the European team, under training in February. athletes and visitors heading to Rio to “difficult if not impossible” to She sustained 11 fractures to her arms in Canadian decathlete held first race is the 18th of August. I need to Darren Clarke at Hazeltine, with his on to his first-day lead to win the Hypo take extra precaution against the mosqui- determine whether the 27-year- one million euro ($1.11 million) prize four separate crashes, one of which, at an concentrate and that is it. Meeting on Sunday, while fellow Canadian “At the end of the day, things will take to-borne virus. old Rehm gets an advantage or money, but still has to overtake one of event in the United States in 2014, also left The organisation has advised women not. her with a badly injured knee and concus- Brianne Theisen-Eaton set this year’s best care of itself.” Danny Willett and Justin Rose in the mark in the women’s heptathlon. who are pregnant or planning to become The study conducted by the world rankings to make the Great sion. (RTRS) ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ ❑ Warner, who also won here three years pregnant to stay away altogether. German Sport University along Britain team for Rio. ago, finished on 8,523 points and beat Chicago Bulls and Spain basketball The virus can cause birth defects with the University of Colorado The Wentworth victory will push of by 77. and the National Institute of Wood into the top 25, but Willett was Hudec to transfer to Czechs: The centre Pau Gasol wants clarity on the including microcephaly in which babies Canadian Alpine ski team says Olympic Last year’s winner Kai Kazmirek of ninth and Rose 10th the week before Zika outbreak in Brazil before deciding are born with unusually small heads and Advanced Industrial Science and bronze medalist Jan Hudec has switched to was 205 points back in third. whether to compete at the Olympics in brains, as well as a potentially fatal neu- Technology in Tokyo found that the event. the Czech Republic team. Leading Kazmirek by just seven points There is an added complication - Rio de Janeiro in August. rological disorder called Guillian-Barre athletes with a running-specific The Czech-born Hudec has undergone after Saturday’s five events, Warner easily prosthesis have an impaired abili- Wood is getting married the week after won the 110 hurdles in 13.72 seconds to Gasol, who has represented his coun- Syndrome. several knee surgeries and started only one try at the last three Games, says there is WHO has provided technical advice to ty in the run up but a better tech- the Olympics and his stag party is due World Cup race last season. extend his lead to 76. to take place when the golf is on in While the German dropped to third, not enough information about the out- Brazil’s health ministry during the Zika nique for the long jump, leaving The Canadian team says it granted open the question of whether a Brazil. (AFP) Hudec’s request, which the International Mayer reduced the gap in each of the fol- break of the virus that is linked to serious crisis, in areas ranging from patient care ❑ ❑ ❑ Ski Federation must approve, after not lowing three events in difficult conditions birth defects. to mosquito control strategies, Alexander prosthesis helps or hinders the ath- due to wind and rain, which forced orga- “I feel a responsibility to raise said in an email. lete. nizers to suspend the for half an hour. Warner finally secured victory by finish- 3 ex-Kenyan officials’ ing ahead of the Frenchman in the con- cluding 1,500 meters. “It was important to win,” the world sil- suspensions extended ver medalist said. “It was difficult but it was an important learning experience with NAIROBI, May 30, (RTRS): The a lot of ups and downs.” IAAF has extended the suspensions of Theisen-Eaton won the women’s com- three former leading Kenyan athletics petition of the Hypo Meeting for a third officials by six months, lead investiga- time. After also triumphing in 2013 and tor Sharad Rao said on Monday. last year, the world silver medalist gath- The east African nation, a global ered 6,765 points. Theisen-Eaton won one of the seven powerhouse in middle and long-dis- events — the long jump with a 6.56-meter tance running, has been in the spotlight effort — and remained 43 points short of recently following allegations of wide- her personal best mark she set while win- spread doping by its athletes. ning here last year. The three senior officials were provi- The Canadian finished 143 points clear sionally suspended by the IAAF on of -Admidina of . Nov. 30, accused of subverting anti- Carolin Schaefer of Germany was 208 points back in third after reaching her per- doping processes. “The suspensions have been extend- Kenyan-born marathon runner with citizenship, sonal best score of 6,557, while 2014 win- Lucia Kimani (R), runs a mass race with other members of the Bosnian ner Katerina Johnson-Thompson of Britain, ed for a further 180 days in respect of Olympic team, during “Olympic Day” presentation, in Sarajevo, on May 27, who was second after the opening day, (Isaiah) Kiplagat, (David) Okeyo and Great Britain’s Mo Farah heads into the final lap ahead of Kenya’s William Malel 2016. (AFP) dropped to sixth with 6,304. (AP) (Joseph) Kinyua,” Rao told Reuters on Sitonik in the men’s 10,000 meters on the first day of the Prefontaine Classic Monday. meet at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore., May 27. (AP)