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Guest Column: Qatar currently unlikely to hold summer world cup with current cooling technology

Guest Column: Qatar currently unlikely to hold summer world cup with current cooling technology

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James M. Dorsey
Jul 19, 2011
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By John Hunt

There’s something unusual about the continued anger surrounding FIFA’s decision to stage the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
As a general rule of thumb, when a particularly egregious pass is reached – and Qatar’s bid victory certainly falls into this category – the vox populi tends to quieten with the passage of time, but not on this occasion.
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