Through friends in the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation, I was introduced by e-mail to Majid Al Usaimi, manager of the Al-Thiqah Club for Handicapped, located in Sharjah, next door to Dubai. There are over three hundred male members with disabilities. The Club boasts accessible saunas, hot tubs, exercise rooms, (I counted 32 exercise machines), billiard tables, huge indoor and outdoor basketball courts, tennis courts and a well-lit track and field area that serves as the training facility for local athletes who have brought home gold and silver from international This facility also has on sight sleeping accommodations for traveling teams. Most impressive was the indoor Olympic size swimming pool complete with ramps and lifts and roll-in showers. Majid, an international table tennis champion, and I enjoyed a match, but his fast serves were more than this rusty player could handle.