My second race this year was the Holland Handbike Circuit in Huijbergen (Noord-Holland) on the 22 of March 2009. As I was last year the winner there, I had to try to hold my title. The race began with high tempo amongst all the athletes and after many attacks, I succeeded to runaway from my […]
The European Handbike Circuit World Cup races took place in Rosenau — France — on the 11th of April 2009.Since this is one of the most famous races, the majority of my Achilles Team / Sopur-Quickie, were present there. I left the Netherlands on Thursday night to France which took me more than 8 hrs […]
Here I am in the United Arab Emirates for my First races this season. I decided to go few days before the races in order to do some training there because it is too cold in the Netherlands. We arrived at 4 am and had some sleep to wake up to a sand storm! However, we […]
Edward Maalouf together with Act For Lebanon Board member Mustapha Assaad visited our great President, Michel Sleiman. It was a great moment full of emotions and “from the heart”, and Edward was very proud and happy to hear from our President that he was following all his news and victories .Then came the moment of […]
The announcement of my my win on the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation!
After the great experience of Beijing 2008, I made it home… not very satisfied butproud and glad! The last 2 months were very difficult: my brother accident, the hard preparation, the family life, my beautiful 2 kids, etc… Therefore, I should be glad with my results. I was sure that I could do more though! During my […]
Here I am heading back home from China after a very exciting month at the Paralympic Games. Straight after my last race, I went straight into hospital as I had an infected wound which resulted in a blood infection. In the hospital, they cleaned the wound, gave me some antibiotics and advised me to lay […]
De eerste missie van Edward is geslaagd. In de time trial die vanmorgen verreden werd behaalde hij een zwaarbevochten bronzen medaille. De eerste indruk van Edward na zijn race tegen de klok was licht teleurgesteld. Hij miste op slechts 6 seconden het goud en op slechts 0.8 van een seconde het zilver. Na de race […]
Het was weer een mooie dag voor team Libanon. De verwachtingen waren zeer hoog gespannen na de formidabele tijdrit die Edward afgelopen vrijdag afleverde. Iedereen dacht dat Edward “wel even” de gouden plak binnen zou halen. Zelf hielden Edward met zijn begeleidingsteam een slag om de arm. De winst is immers pas binnen als je echt […]
I have been in Beijing for 3 weeks already preparing myself for the Paralympics games. In this long preparation time, I’ve been accompanied by my German team mate Vico Merkheim and my coach Henk Ceelen and coach Herman Vrijhof who have conjugated themselves with me at the Paralympics village. Henk, Vico and I have already done several […]