The TOP Candidated Cities to host the 2020 Olympic Games

Time to start speculating about which city is the favorite to host the Games of 2020!

the five most likely host cities for the next, next, next Olympics. Each of the cities has, at some point, been rumored to be considering a bid for 2020.

1) Rome -- Rome 2020 has three things going for it: The IOC will want to get back to Europe after Rio de Janeiro, the Games haven't been in the city since 1960.

2) Minneapolis-- There were a half-dozen reasons Chicago didn't get the Games and anti-American bias is just one them. The IOC is, was, and always will be Eurocentric. But it was Eurocentric when Atlanta got the 1996 Games and Eurocentric when Salt Lake City hosted in 2002. It's always a hurdle to overcome, but it can be done. And it will be done sooner rather than later. At some point the IOC is going to have to make some political concessions and come back to the United States. Both Minneapolis and Boston are said to be considering bids for 2020. We'd give the edge to Minneapolis since support from citizenry is a major factor in these things.

3) Madrid -- Always the dama de honor, never la novia.
4) Dubai/Doha -- We're lumping these two cities together (from the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, respectively) because they both have the same pros and cons: The IOC has never gone to the Middle East and, as the Rio vote showed, the organization loves to try things for the first time. More importantly, both of these places are flush with oil money, so funding would be a breeze and the facilities would likely be the greatest the sports world has ever seen. But no amount of money can change the weather, and the 100+ degree average temperatures in these cities in July, August and September make holding outdoor events an impossibility. Yes, they could build climate-controlled domes, but I doubt the IOC would go for that. And what about events that have to be outside like the marathon, rowing, long-distance walking and beach volleyball?

5) Toronto -- All the benefits of the United States without the need to capitulate to the USOC.

Not on the list: Birmingham (seriously, the mayor wants to make a bid) ... Tulsa ... Guadalajara (IOC isn't going to Latin America twice in a row) ... St. Petersburg ... Cape Town (this will happen one day, but the fear of back-to-back southern hemisphere Olympics will prevent it from going down in 2020).

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Dubai May Bid For 2020

As Gamesbids informs:
Business Maktoob reports Dubai officials, headed by Crown Prince Sheik Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, will meet Monday to discuss the emirate's bid for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games.
The emirate is working on a plan to host the Games, including the required infrastructure, said a statement.

Dubai had been interested in bidding for the 2016 Summer Games but didn't submit a bid by the deadline.

If successful, Dubai could become the first city in the Middle East to host the Olympics.

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DUBAI2020, Doha's new contender

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Shashank Shekhar
Two Arab contenders have now emerged to contest for the 2020 Olympics – Dubai and Doha. Doha seriously vied for hosting the 2016 Olympic Games and was not considered when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) held its first round of meetings in June last year.

Immediately afterwards, Qatar announced it will bid for the 2020 Olympics. The other cities that have already lined up to bid up for the 2020 Olympics include Durban, Cape Town, Busan, New Delhi, Toronto and Kuala Lumpur. Dubai has now set up a committee to study the city's potential to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2020. Even though the emirate may be relatively young compared to the growing list of ambitious cities lining up for the 2020 bid, there are certain aspects that give it an edge over the other contenders.
The most important of all, people with knowledge of the matter say, is its potential for constructing townships, buildings and infrastructure at a pace that is arguably one of the fastest in the world. "Dubai's record in construction will come to its aid. The Metro and the transport system will also add to the emirate's strength while bidding," Dr Eckart Woertz, Programme Manager (Economics) at Gulf Research Center, told Emirates Business. But how does the IOC decide which city will host the Olympic Games? This is a decision that involves dozens of members of an elite club who consider everything from the candidate city's financial situation to its traditions of "Olympism and culture".According to reports, the IOC evaluates 18 themes, which vary from the logistical, such as transportation and security, to the subjective plans for an Olympic Village, for example. Dubai, by all accounts scores well on these issues.
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China's Top Trade Official: Don't Abandon the Doha Round

After seven years of ups and downs, the WTO's Doha Development Agenda negotiations registered another failure in July (BusinessWeek.com, 7/30/08). The talks collapsed when the agreement on modalities of both agriculture and nonagriculture market access (NAMA), critical to the progress of the whole round, was almost within reach. This is tragic. Yet multilateral trade negotiations have never sailed smoothly before, so one more setback should not mean the end of the Doha Round.

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