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The city as a stadium - the marquee events, the clubs and the business of hosting.
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Dubai has spent two decades buying its way onto the global sporting calendar, and it shows. In a single season the city hosts a tennis championship, a rugby sevens weekend, a golf desert classic, a Formula weekend up the road in Abu Dhabi, and a cricket schedule that has made the Emirates a neutral home for the sport. This section covers all of it - as events, and as a strategy.
We write about the fixtures worth planning a trip around and how to actually attend them: when tickets go on sale, where to sit, what a session really costs once you add the extras. We cover the clubs and academies that have grown up around the imported stars, the padel courts that appeared on every rooftop, the running and cycling scene that comes alive the moment the heat breaks, and the grassroots leagues that outlast the headline events.
And we treat sport as the business it is here - the sponsorships, the stadium economics, the tourism the calendar is built to drive, and the questions that come with a city hosting events faster than it grows the crowds to fill them. Every piece is reported first-hand and dated, because a fixture list and a ticket price both go stale fast.