Dubai to hold first 2020 Olympics bid meeting

Posted by: THENAPPAN CHOCKALINGAM THENAPPAN Saturday, 7 November 2009 7:58 AM[UAE] - UAE

Dubai certainly can achieve this aim. In Dubai there is a well established infrastructure of hotels to cater any number of guest, nice roads and efficient Dubai Police to handle the traffic. Stadiums are there and also under construction. Dubai is always stands first in the Middle East in all its development and certainly they will be the first nation to conduct Olympics in Middle east.

Posted by: Frank Tuesday, 3 November 2009 8:59 AM[UAE] - UAE

Dubai go for it! We support you. I am sure if Dubai or UAE will hold this event it would be A-Class event in all areas. MyDubai-MyOlympics

Posted by: michael mcmullen Tuesday, 3 November 2009 6:02 AM[UAE] - U.A.E.

We've seen some amazing things being done successfully here in this great city of Dubai, when they said that it couldn't be done. So, why not the Olympics? Anything is possible in this world. Obviously the U.A.E. cannot hold the games in our summer, so the Dubai Olympic committee will have to convince the IOC to move the event to the start or end of the year. It can be done by moving many of the other world class events around in the years running up to the event. Has anyone ever stopped to think why there's so much construction and infrastructure being done in the city of Dubai? Why did they build Dubai Sports City for example? This is something that has been thought of for a long time. Let's all get behind any attempt by the Government of Dubai and the U.A.E. for any bid to host the Olympics. Everyone will reap the benefits. Just imagine what will happen to property prices especially up at Dubai Sports City!! Bring it on and let's all see the positives. My City My Olympics.

Posted by: Rob Monday, 2 November 2009 11:43 PM[UAE]

Even in October it would be the hottest Olympics of all time, with only Athens '04, Atlanta '96 and St. Louis 1904 even coming close. The great majority of venues were at least 10 C less. And Atlanta (held in August), where high temperatures are around 31 C, was criticized as being too hot for outdoor competition. The high temperature in Dubai in mid-October is still 35+ C, with blistering sun and no clouds. Unless it's all indoor venues it's difficult to see how it could work before mid to late November.

Posted by: Arjun Monday, 2 November 2009 2:47 PM[UAE] - UAE

You can start forgetting about it as we all saw what happened in Dec 2006 when Doha organised the Asian meet. UAE has a an amazing passion for sport but unfortunately...not yet.......they need to first sort out things here for the infrastructure to come up in a specific place and decide at what time of the year would they do it.....i would say if someone can host an event like the olympics in the middle east definitely is UAE but ye they have a long way to go.....long long way.