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Here’s How Tech’s Shaping the 2022 FIFA World Cup
The 2022 World Cup in Qatar is the first of many things: the first World Cup held in the Winter, the first held in Gulf Arab state, and the first to use a whole suit of new tracking technologies vying to modernise soccer’s traditionalist culture. Like most incremental changes in sports, not all fans are…
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Coronavirus Has Cost Us The Top-Tier Race At The Grand Prix Of Qatar
After the Geneva Motor Show succumbed to fears surrounding the growing Coronavirus epidemic and Formula One and Formula E races in Asia have been put in jeopardy as well, the top-tier MotoGP season opener next weekend in Qatar has been cancelled.
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Zaha Hadid Was One Of The Most Polarising Architects Of Our Time
Zaha Hadid has died suddenly at age 65 from a heart attack. As the first woman architect to achieve notable celebrity, Hadid’s prolific and geographically diverse commissions mean that she will likely remain the best-known woman architect on the planet for many years. But her work was also incredibly controversial — not just the design…
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Qatar Is Still Using Forced Labour To Build Stadiums
Last year, the Qatari government promised to, uh, get better about using forced labour to build the stadiums and infrastructure it needs to host the World Cup in 2020. But according to a new report from Amnesty International, nothing has changed.