home of the 2016 olympics

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"Dubai Sports City, the world's first purpose-built sports city, will incorporate state-of-the-art sporting venues and academies along with residential and commercial developments. These will combine to offer a world class venue for sports events and activities at all levels with a residential lifestyle unrivalled in the region and possibly the world. Construction of Dubai Sports City is well under way and with the first sports facilities and homes being completed by late 2007, the future of sport and the future of living is nearer than you might think. "

They will have academies for every major sport in the region (tennis academy, golf academy, cricket academy, football academy etc) and sports-focused academy for kids from kindergarden on up. many other private sports schools such as manchester united soccer academy.

This will be an entire city devoted to sports. Its residents will literally eat sleep and drink sports.

sports themed mall


worlds first 100% luxury stadium


dunes golf club in sports city will blow away the current worldclass "dubai golf club" in dubai

dubai sports city is sure to draw several olympics, tennis grandslams, major golf tournaments, fifa world cups, cricket world cups etc for years to come.

http://www.dubaisportscity.ae

5/26/2007 11:14:54 AM

Good to see the higher gas prices are at least going to something halfway cool, although I really would prefer the extra money back in my pockets.

5/26/2007 11:34:08 AM

(there's doing this stuff because they're running out of oil and want a source of income after it's gone.)


^^tennis grandslams don't exactly travel around.

[Edited on May 26, 2007 at 11:47 AM. Reason : .]

5/26/2007 11:46:34 AM

lets not be ignorant folks, oil is less than 2% of dubai's gdp

5/26/2007 11:54:06 AM

LOL, I love it when somebody calls others ignorant and then posts a completely bogus statistic.

Nice work, asshat.

5/26/2007 12:03:04 PM

that's awesome.

5/26/2007 12:28:45 PM

maybe the middle east will even win an event

[Edited on May 26, 2007 at 1:08 PM. Reason : (if suicide bombing were an event)]

5/26/2007 1:08:14 PM

lol

5/26/2007 1:09:43 PM

*cue the suicide bomber flash game*

5/26/2007 1:18:27 PM

This thread contains some of the most ignorant things I've ever read.

5/26/2007 2:03:45 PM

Outdoor stadium: 60,000 seats
Indoor: 10,000 seats

Those seem kind of small.

5/26/2007 2:23:31 PM

^^ That's so ironic, coming from Ronny.

^ Yes, it is small. But, the Olympics have been a dying trend.

[Edited on May 26, 2007 at 2:49 PM. Reason : .]

5/26/2007 2:49:28 PM

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"Good to see the higher gas prices are at least going to something halfway cool, although I really would prefer the extra money back in my pockets."

except that dubai's GDP isn't based on oil. Its trade. If this was Abu Dahbi (the capitol city of the UAE, which is the country where Dubai is located) then yes, it would be oil. And since you assumed Dubai's GDP was based on oil, i'm going to assume you have no idea what country it is located.

5/26/2007 3:59:50 PM

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"And since you assumed Dubai's GDP was based on oil, i'm going to assume you have no idea what country it is located."

Are you implying that UAE's economy doesn't depend very heavily on fossil fuel?

5/26/2007 5:32:15 PM

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"the Olympics have been a dying trend."

Hardly

Countries still spend billions on campaigns to get bring the Olympics to one of their cities

5/26/2007 6:20:40 PM

^^no, he's implying that dubai's economy isn't. can you read?

5/26/2007 6:21:29 PM

^I sure can. Did you happen to peruse the text I quoted? If your cited conclusion was the only corollary of his statement, I wouldn't have an issue. However, it's quite obvious that its not.

Try again.

5/26/2007 6:31:14 PM

did you read the rest of his post where he said that other areas in the country are reliant on oil?

5/26/2007 6:36:44 PM

^summed it up enough for me.

[Edited on May 26, 2007 at 7:16 PM. Reason : fda]

5/26/2007 7:13:58 PM

you know what, fuck it.

I love you guys. <3

5/26/2007 8:16:52 PM

Wish this were in America

5/26/2007 9:36:48 PM

olympics is teh dying!

[Edited on May 26, 2007 at 9:45 PM. Reason : .]

5/26/2007 9:44:53 PM

i want to move there :x

5/26/2007 10:15:52 PM

Chicago will be the home of the 2016 olympics. fuck dubai

5/27/2007 9:27:05 AM

I used to go ice skating in the Abu Dhabi sports city. It wasn't anything to this magnitude but it was pretty decent at the time (late 80's). And it was located out in the middle of no where in the desert lol

5/27/2007 1:23:01 PM

so cockman is another alias of trapezius, b/c he is the only one that brings up dubai all the time....

5/27/2007 2:14:46 PM

Dubai is like a friggen modern day Utopia

5/27/2007 3:50:48 PM

Back in the day when I used to go there, it was the biggest shit hole ever with 1 or 2 shopping malls. Its so hard to believe that all this has happened so fast.

My favorite stop as a kid on the way back home to Abu Dhabi was stopping at the SafeWay just outside the city on the desert road. It was the only safeway around.

[Edited on May 27, 2007 at 5:48 PM. Reason : fda]

5/27/2007 5:47:20 PM