Olympics: Dubai opts out of 2020 bid

Rather prepare to host the event four years later instead.

DUBAI: The Gulf Arab emirate’s media has announced its decision not enter a bid for the 2020 Olympic Games and prepare to host the event four years later instead. The National Olympic Committee of the United Arab Emirates had been eyeing a 2020 bid but decided a later one may be better timed, although it estimated 70 per cent of infrastructure to host the event was in already place or in the planning stages.



Published in The Express Tribune, July 30^th, 2011.