According to a high official of the Bangladesh Olympic Association (BOA), it did not receive an invitation to join the 117th IOC session in Singapore, which today would decide from five cities -- Paris, London, Madrid, New York and Moscow -- who would host the 2012 Summer Games.

"It has never happened in the past and no-one even bothered about missing an important session of the IOC. It was only learnt that the BOA had not received an invitation when someone made queries," the BOA official told yesterday.

"Both the IOC and the Asian Olympic Committee usually send invitations to us. How both of them were missed here is a mystery," he added.