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Amazing video -- Lighting the Torch at Doha

OK. Get ready to have your breathe taken away.

I wrote about this guy and his Arabian horse earlier. But you've got to see this amazing video of the opening at Doha.

The Gulf Times. HE became the talk of the town when he pulled off the heart-stopping stunt astride Malibu the horse to light the 15th Asian Games Doha 2006 cauldron at the Opening Ceremony on Friday. And barely two days since, Sheikh Mohamed bin Hamad al-Thani’s name has crossed the boundaries of the Gulf, with the nearly five-minute long video clip of the daring stunt circulating via MMS and e-mail not just in Qatar but in faraway countries as well.

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