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First things first: this has nothing to do with the revelation last week that Fifa won’t publish a report into allegations over corruption into the award of the tournament to Qatar in the first place–against the wishes of special investigator Michael Garcia.
No, no, perish the thought. It’s just that, five years after receiving the application from the Qatari soccer federation, Fifa has discovered–to its evident consternation–that it can get pretty hot in the Persian Gulf in June and July (the average temperature in July is over 105 degrees). They’re shocked down in Zurich. Shocked, I tell you.
“They may be able to cool the stadiums but a World Cup does not take place only there. Fans from around the world will be coming and traveling in this heat and the first life-threatening case will trigger an investigation by a state prosecutor. That is not something that Fifa Exco members want to answer for.”
This is an extraordinary statement, not least because Fifa has been quite happy to accept literally hundreds of deaths among the migrant construction workers from India and Nepal who are building the stadiums and other infrastructure for the tournament, working 12-hour days in a modern form of indentured labor.
[url]http://fortune.com/2014/09/22/fifa-to-pull-2022-world-cup-from-qatar-for-medical-reasons-official/[url]
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