Doha last night accused the IOC of "closing the door on the Arab world" after it was ejected from the field of candidates to stage the 2016 summer games. The capital city of Qatar was ranked joint-third among seven candidates but failed to make it through to the final shortlist of four cities announced by the IOC yesterday.

Tokyo, Madrid, Chicago and Rio de Janeiro were selected by the IOC executive board as candidates for 2016. Baku in Azerbaijan and Prague were also ejected, but with Doha ranked comfortably ahead of Rio and level with Chicago in the overall technical assessment the ... More >

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