 Nyorai mberi kweiyi ndima - Vatambi vanomwe veEgypt, varume vatanhatu nemukadzi mumwe, vakakwanisa kuenda kumitambo yeOlympic, kunyange zvazvo mumwe asina kukwikwidza. Noura Elsayed, mukadzi oga, akanga arongerwa kumhanya mumamita 800, asi akabva pamusana pokukuvara. MuIjipita chete kuti kutora chikamu mune zvinopfuura chimwe chiitiko akanga Amr Ibrahim Mostafa Seoud, mumwe veteran ari 200 metres chiitiko panguva 2008 Summer yeOlympic. Seoud, uyo akahwina menduru dzegoridhe mumamita zana pa2007 Pan-Arab uye 2011 All-African Games, uye mamita mazana maviri pa2007 Pan-Arab uye 2009 Mediterranean Games, pamwe ne2010 African Championships, akasangana ne A yekukodzera mwero kune ese ari maviri mamita zana nemakumi maviri emamita. Mumakwikwi e100, akaenzana nomurwi wepasi rose uye ari kutsigira mukwikwidzi weOlympic Usain Bolt weJamaica uye akapedza ari wechina, izvo zvakanga zvisina kukwana kuti afambire mberi. Akanga ane mugumisiro mumwe chetewo mumatanho okutanga e200. Hamada Mohamed akasangana neA yekukodzera mwero wemamita mazana masereuye akakunda muLondon, achipfuurira kuenda kumasemifinal. Akaiswa mumakwikwi akafanana naDavid Rudisha wekuKenya, akabata rekodhi yepasi rose uye anokunda menduru yegoridhe, uye akapedza wechisere pavakwikwidzi vapfumbamwe, akatadza kusvika kumagumo. 