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Why is Dubai ready for Olympics?

Naseem Javed

Tuesday, 14 July 2009 15:33

Dubai has opened a race for UAE and the region to showcase and prove their talent, cultural heritage and diversity to the world of 2020.There is no other event on this planet that attracts more global attention, uproar, and prestige to a city than the Olympics. During my working with Mayor Jean Drapeau of City of Montreal during the Montreal 1976 Summer Olympic Games, the following critical components are not only essential for the games but they also changed my life forever.

The diversity; no other platform attracts so many nations in one place to simultaneously interact and so joyfully compete in the spirit of the games. Dubai provides a highly desirable balance with its fertile grounds to nurture a culture of diversity and tolerance while such Olympic scale interactions will climax throughout the next decade and beyond.

The competitiveness; the world focuses on the games and each cry out for the nationalistic winnings testing their strength to the finish line. Arabians will have a great journey from lighting to the dimming of the flame. The entire Middle Eastern and South Asia is truly poised for such an opportunity.

The perfection; the enforcement of quality demanded by Olympics creates new benchmarks of perfection creating brand new standards as recently demonstrated, like the poetry in motion displayed during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Dubai is always setting new standards however there is a lot of work ahead for Falcon and Associates to win the bid, but again, how fast did the last decade go anyway?

So far with Delhi, Qatar and Kuala Lumpur and others in the play perhaps Dubai can easily outpace and outperform the race for the prerequisite of Olympic structures, surrounded by vibrant city planning to fit the 2020 lifestyle and beyond. Though challenging but based on its recent achievements and foresighted vision Dubai’s bid would be the most impressive.

The nationalism; like a magnet Olympics attract every part of the country from government agencies to big and small business, institutions and every kind of organization one could imagine, this creates a national movement towards achieving something very big. The Dubai model already offers a winning combination where public and private interests support each other and finance this mega project.

The infrastructures; Olympic hosting cities suddenly blossom into maturity, creativity and enforced compliance create beautiful venues that become lifelong monuments to this great event forever. In Dubai with so much construction already underway, the Olympic venues will beautifully blend with the rest of the planning thereby making it a very friendly city.

The image; the universe of billions of people anxiously monitors the progress leading all the way to the final games with amazing ceremonies, creates an unmatched word class global image position for the hosting city, respect for the country and its people. Certainly it creates a very special spotlight and places Dubai into a new stratosphere.

What Olympics would bring additional power to Dubai would be the centrality of diversity firmly displayed during the games and later the cultural extension of the regional communities in the Arabian region. Approaching 2010, the hyper accelerated global image shifts and youth of the Arabian region would share this global task. In conclusion, from my experience in the 1976 Montreal Olympic games, the city of Dubai already has what it takes to light the flame in 2020. This is a great step forward as the next decade demands another quantum leap and once again, the full credit goes to HRH Sheikh Mohammed.

Global Arab Network

Naseem Javed, author of “Naming for Power” and recognized as a world-authority on building corporate image and creating global name identities Naseem introduced “the Laws of Corporate Naming” in the 80’s and also founded ABC Namebank, in Toronto and New York

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