Dubai aiming to bid to host the Olympics within 8 years

Dubai is aiming to bid to host the Olympics Games within the next eight years, the emirate’s head of sports has claimed.

“Hosting the Olympics is a dream. We hope to submit such a bid within the next eight years, God willing,” Ali Omar, the director of Dubai Sports Council (DSC), told the Xinhua news agency, confirming that submitting an application to host the world’s biggest sporting event was still on the cards.

The next Games in 2016 and 2020 will be held in Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo, while the bidding for the 2024 games has yet to commence. The only candidate to have expressed an interest in Berlin.

With Dubai winning the bid to host Expo 2020 and Qatar hosting the FIFA World Cup in 2022, Omar said the two successful bids had put the world’s focus on the region.

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Dubai aiming to bid to host the Olympics within 8 years