The Moroccan and Egyptian football teams are close to achieving an unprecedented medal for the Arabs in the Olympic Games, by qualifying for the semi-finals, while the handball pharaohs reached the quarter-finals on Friday in the Paris Games.

The Arabs’ score remained frozen in the games, which continue until August 11, with the silver medal of the Tunisian fencer Fares Ferjani and the bronze of the Egyptian sword fencer Mohamed El-Sayed.

Morocco achieved a landslide victory over the United States 4-0, while Egypt came back from afar with a difficult victory over Paraguay on penalties, and qualified for the third time in its history after finishing the 1928 and 1964 editions in fourth place.

Iraq was the last Arab team to reach the football semi-finals in the 2004 Athens edition, when it finished fourth.

In handball, the Egyptian men reached the quarter-finals after defeating Norway 26-25.

Egypt has a beautiful journey in this edition, after its victory over Hungary 35-32, its narrow loss to strong Denmark 27-30 and its escape from victory against France (26-26)

In athletics, Bahraini Birhanu Baliu achieved his best record of the season, but he came in seventeenth place in the 10,000 m race.

Moroccan runner Anas Al-Saai reached the semi-finals of the 1500 meters on Friday. Al-Sa'i finished fourth in the first series of the first round with a time of 3:36.44 minutes, in a race that the Norwegian Jacob Ingebrigsten, the title holder, is considered the strongest candidate to win, along with Britain's Josh Kerr.

Al-Sa'i is the only Arab participating in the 1500m race, whose record is held by his compatriot Hicham El Guerrouj, with a time of 3:26.00 minutes since July 14, 1998.

Egyptian Mustafa El Gamal was eliminated from the first round of the hammer throw competition, finishing in the penultimate fourteenth place (70.09 m).

The journey of Palestinian Valerie Tarazi in her first Olympic participation ended at the hurdle of the 200m medley qualifiers, but the swimmer who raised her voice loudly in order to represent Palestine, which has been mired in conflict for decades, remains in the French capital to encourage her citizens.

The 24-year-old, born in the United States, finished the qualifications with a time of 2:20.45 minutes in thirty-second place from last, but the experience “was good,” according to what Agence France-Presse reported from the “La Defense Arena” hall, where she raised her forearm after the end of her race to show the flag. The Palestinian on her shoulder.

She admitted that she was hoping for a better result, “but I had a small problem. I tore two of my suits while wearing them, so I barely made it to the race preparation room.”

,In fencing, Egypt was eliminated from the quarter-finals of the team saber competition against France 39-45. In the positional matches, it lost against Kazakhstan 21-36 and then Venezuela 35-41.

In judo, Emirati Magomedomar Magomedomarov defeated Algerian Mohamed Mahdi Mohamed Laili with an ippon shot 10-0 in the round of 32 for the +100 kg category before losing to the great French champion Teddy Renner 0-10.

Also, Tunisian Sarah Mazoughi lost to Portuguese Rochelle Nunes in the round of 32 in the +78 kg boxing category. Tunisian Kholoud Halimi lost to Turkish Isra Yildiz Kahraman in the round of 16 in the +57 weight category.