Gas-rich Qatar has launched an ambitious bid to host the 2016 Olympics, citing state-of-the-art facilities it has or will build for the event and its record in staging the Asian Games.
"I am very confident that Doha will remain in the bid until the end and hopefully we will win," Hassan Ali bin Ali, chairman of the Doha 2016 bid, told AFP on Tuesday, one day after the bid was formally submitted to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in the Swiss city of Lausanne.
"Doha is the first Arab capital to be in the bid to host the Olympic Games," bin Ali said in a telephone interview.
Source: China Daily
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