World Athletics Championships disaster proves why World Cup 2022 is doomed (Image: GETTY)The stadia will be gleaming, the air-conditioning humming away inside but unless the state-of-the-art technology can also deliver holograms of spectators it is doomed to failure.The decision to stage the World Athletics Championships in Doha, the Qatari capital, has been a disaster, the attendance pathetic.The depressing sight of the fastest woman on the planet, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, waving to a non-existent crowd as she paraded around the Khalifa International Stadium with her two-year-old son Zyon summed up the apathy.The event should never have gone there.Qatar’s bid for the championships is under criminal investigation in France. A preliminary charge of active corruption over a $3.5m payment to an IAAF official has been filed against Paris St Germain’s Qatari owner Nasser Al-Khelaifi. He denies wrongdoing.What the past week has shown – if we did not know already – is that a World Cup in Qatar is an accident waiting to happen.It is all well and good expanding a sport’s horizons and looking beyond the obvious but there has to be buy-in from the host nation to make it work.When Qatar hosted the UCI Road World Championships three years ago the cyclists…