(ATR) The campaign of Doha for the 2016 Olympics now includes a website.
The newly-launched www.doha2016.org.qa, is billed as an interim site by bid organizers. In this early stage it carries more information about Qatar than about the Olympic bid, but that is expected to change in October when a more complete site is unveiled at the same time the bid is formally launched. The site includes English, French and Arabic.
While limited in Olympic bid details, the website promises great things from Qatar for the Olympics and Paralympics.
“Our Doha 2016 Olympic Games Plan will establish a new state-of-the-art regional centre for elite – and youth – sport in a part of the world currently underserved by such facilities. We are also already going ahead with plans to build the world’s most advanced Paralympic stadium, which will serve disabled sportsmen and women for generations to come,” says the website about the venue plan.
In a statement, bid chair Hassan Ali Bin Ali says the first Olympics in an Arab country would be a meaningful event, “extending the Olympic ideals to millions of new hearts and minds”.
“A lot has already changed in Qatar and in particular Doha, in the last 50 years,” he says.
If we were granted the opportunity to stage the Olympics and Paralympics in 2016, it would not only allow us to further develop the city’s infrastructure but also to use the power of peaceful sporting competition to create understanding, hope and change that could unite the entire region with the rest of the world,” Ali says.
The Qatari business leader was drafted in June to lead the Doha campaign. The bid is hoping to use its experience as host of the 2006 Asian Games last December as a springboard to the 2016 Olympics.
Doha is one of seven cities which met last week’s deadline with the IOC to apply for the 2016 Olympics. Baku, Chicago, Madrid, Prague, Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro are the other cities in the race, to be decided at the IOC Session in Copenhagen in 2009.
Along with Doha, Prague and Chicago are the only other cities with official websites.
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