Tuesday 30, June 2009 by Isla MacFarlane
Let the games begin
I can’t walk ten minutes down the road under the UAE’s punishing summer sun without wanting to collapse in a sweaty heap, so I can’t imagine how the Dubai government expects athletes to train under the same conditions. But they do, with a top level group, including government officials, being set up to explore the possibility of Dubai hosting the Olympic Games in 2020.