International pundits believe that the host city will most likely be in North America because cities from Asia, Australia and Europe have been selected as hosts for the four most recent Olympic Games, unless Latin America, (with the exception of the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games) Africa, Southeast Asia and the Middle East, areas that have never hosted the Olympic Games, can impress the International Olympic Committee otherwise.
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I would love to see them go to Dubai. Or Doha, Quatar, both strongly considering bids.
This would normalize relations, build bridges with the Islamic world and move the focus of world attention to someone else besides the (comparatively few) Islamic terrorists.
Doha successfully pulled off the 2006 Asian Games though they had low spectator turn-out.
No doubt the threat of terrorist violence will hurt the chances of both cities.
Olympic logo in Quatar.
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