Qatar Wants To Host the 2036 Olympic Games
Qatar is committed to hosting the 2036 Summer Olympic Games in Doha, according to a source familiar with the Olympic bidding process.
The Gulf nation’s confidence has grown and its determination to host the Olympics has grown as a result of the success of the current FIFA World Cup.
However, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has not given a deadline for when it plans to award the 2036 sporting event.
If the Games were to be held in Doha, it would be the first time they would be hosted in a Muslim country.
Qatar was not chosen for the shortlist for the 2016 or 2020 Games, in part because of worries about the summer heat. Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo hosted such competitions.
It is expected that the Gulf country will try to move any Olympics later in the year, as it did with the World Cup, because it has installed state-of-the-art air conditioning in stadiums to reduce the heat during the football season.
At the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha, the 2019 World Athletics Championships were held from late September to early October.
Since then, the IOC has changed the selection process for the Games, giving up the traditional bidding process in favour of picking a favourite candidate from a group of interested cities. Brisbane 2032 was the first game to be chosen in this manner.
Qatar completely built seven of the eight World Cup stadiums, but it will be challenging for it to find regular use for all of them. The Olympics would be seen as a logical fit given the nation’s enormous infrastructure development.
Before being selected to host the World Cup back in 2010, Qatar has already been a major regional sports hub by hosting important competitions.
“In 2006, we hosted our first major event, the ‘2006 Asian Games’. Since then we’ve hosted over 600 international and regional events, so if we look at sports I mean obviously the World Cup is the biggest but hosting the Handball World Championship, hosting the IWF Athletics World Championship, hosting Formula 1 now for the next 10 years,” Qatar 2022 CEO Nasser Al Khater told Doha News in June.
“Qatar has been a regional powerhouse in sports and will continue to be so,” he told Doha News in an exclusive interview, suggesting that Qatar will continue to host sports events even after the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
