Dubai has what it takes to host the Games 

There is not one Arab flag on the list of countries that hold the honour of having hosted the Olympics. That means the Flame of the Olympics, which was first lit in Athens in the eighth century BC, and then re-emerged in the Greek capital in 1896, may have travelled far and wide to almost every country in Europe or to North America and, more recently, Asia, but it has skipped the land very close to its origin.

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.