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Qatar Weighing Olympic Bid After Being Awarded '19 World Athletics Championships

Qatar has "already bagged football's World Cup and the World Athletics Championships, two of the biggest sporting events on the planet, and it also hosts top-class golf and tennis tournaments," but it "wants more," according to the BBC. It wants the event that likes to call itself "the greatest show on earth," the Olympics. The "little but loaded Gulf state has already made two unsuccessful attempts to get on the ballot paper" for the summer edition of the Olympics and Paralympics and a third bid is reportedly "certain." A sports consultant with "close knowledge of the region" said, "It will definitely happen." With Qatar "determined to press on with its strategy of converting its huge reserves of natural gas into cultural and political power on the world stage, many experts believe it is only a matter of time" before the world's richest country per capita secures the Olympic rings. IOC VP Craig Reedie said, "It wouldn't surprise me if they decided to bid again." Qatar has since "successfully bid for major events in sports as diverse as cycling, handball and swimming, carefully building relationships" with the int'l federations of each of those "Olympic family" members. One British-based consultant for sports bids described winning the 2019 World Athletics Championships as the "last piece in the puzzle" for a Doha Olympics, given track and field's "status as the IOC's most important sporting stakeholder." But there are "other voices to consider," not least those of U.S. media giant NBC and several American-based sponsors. And a successful bid in '24 would mean that a country that has "never qualified for a World Cup or won an Olympic gold will stage three of the world's biggest sports events in just five years" (BBC, 11/19).

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