World News
New spotlight falls on Qatar World Cup 2022─── 12:02 Fri, 29 May 2015
Qatar is keeping mum about the American and Swiss raids that have rocked FIFA and thrown another unwelcome spotlight on the tiny Gulf nation's hosting of the 2022 World Cup.
The Washington Post compared worker fatalities from Qatar's World Cup against deaths from preparing such events. The London 2012 olympics cost the life of one worker. South Africa's 2010 World Cup two, Beijing Olympics 2008 - six, the Sochi winter Olympics last year - sixty, and then there's Qatar - where so far at least 1200 workers have been killed.
According to CBS News the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy, which is leading Qatar's development of World Cup venues and other projects, has so far declined repeated requests to comment since the investigations became public on Wednesday. So has Qatar's government.
Although FIFA spokesman Walter de Gregorio said there will be no re-vote for hosting of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, the investigations nonetheless increase the pressure on Qatar. Its winning bid has been assailed by critics over a host of issues ranging from allegations of corruption to questions over migrant workers.
Sources: Washington Post, CBS News
The human toll of FIFA’s corruption, in one chart http://t.co/reXXZRhkt4 pic.twitter.com/7NI1QiVxPF
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) May 27, 2015
