Summer #Brisbane2032 - Brisbane announced as host of the 2032 Olympics!

[Jeremias]

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

First look at Brisbane’s no-frills Olympic stadium

Unusually for a summer Olympics, Brisbane 2032 will be held in the middle of winter. The planned stadium will not provide much cover for spectators.

www.brisbanetimes.com.au

Designed by Populous

They haven't got the contract yet, so they probably didn't do a huge job on it, but that must be the most boring stadium renders Populous have done in the last 20-25 years.

 

[dantm]

I think Populous are taking the piss out of the Brisbane Organising Commitee
That render and stadium is a complete joke and Australia will be the absolute laughing stock

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

This ABC News video as part of the If You're Listening series by Matt Bevan is on Montreal and its disastrous 1976 Olympics.

Brisbane wont be anything like this for several reasons. Most important one is the City of Montreal via its exaggerating and dodgy Mayor Jean Drapeau committed the city treasury to financing the games which saw huge infrastructure cost blow outs for many reasons as discussed in the video.

Sydney was financed and guaranteed by the NSW government, the city of Sydney made token representations as part of the bid, and Brisbane is a 50/50 partnership between the Queensland and federal government. The feds did contribute 2 lots of monies to Sydney, $150m for infrastructure which it promised as part of the bid process, and $97m for event costs of both Olympic and Paralympic Games, with most of it for the Paralympics.

North American cities have more taxing powers than Oz cities and that's why Montreal made the official bid, but the Quebec Provincial government had to step in and help finance the games, but they loaned the city most of the money and its why it took Montreal over 30 years to pay off the debts it racked up for the games via different taxes it levied.

Moscow was next which was all government funded, but in LA in 1984, the Olympics changed and went full capitalism after long serving IOC president, American Avery Brundage died in 1975 and had resisted the commercialisation of the games for decades. Montreal meant that was no longer possible.

Even though the city of Los Angeles signed up for the games not the state of California, long serving Mayor of LA Tom Bradley, who was Mayor when the bid was made in 1978, negotiated a commitment to a private sector Olympic Games which would not use tax payer dollars over several months and the USOC had to go guarantor not the city of Los Angeles, and he appointed the organising committee who had to aggressively go and find new revenue streams as the city would provide very little finance. The bid was made with using existing infrastructure for most of the sports.

Enter LAOCOG President Peter Ubberoth, who broke new grounds for corporate involvement of the games, signed a massive increase in TV rights to help finance the games, and ran the games at a decent profit. And he had to deal with the Soviet bloc countries boycotting the games.

He laid down several principles that would govern the Organizing Committee’s operations. Existing facilities were to be used whenever possible, thereby keeping expenses down. This included the use of university residence halls at UCLA and USC as Olympic Village sites. The only sports facilities that Los Angeles needed to build were a velodrome, a swim stadium and a shooting venue.

He changed the games forever and arguably he changed professional sports forever as US sports copied some of the things he did, started to negotiate for big increase in TV rights and Major League Baseball appointed him Commissioner a few months after the games ended. He was so successful Time Magazine named him their 1984 Man of the Year.

Brisbane OCOG President Andrew Liveris doesn't have be as innovative as Peter Ubberoth was, but he has use all the skills he acquire in his business career starting as a chemical engineer, rising to be CEO and then executive chairman of Dow Chemical Company which later merged with Dupont and become DowDupont, to make sure he gets the 3 major stadiums right and delivering a memorable games that the legacy isn't just huge debts.

The last 4 minutes of this 15 minute video is about what LA did to be 180 degrees apart from Montreal.

 

[Rob R]

The lnp are already looking at something else

Hopefully cancelling it.

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[Gordon Farkas]

First look at the Brisbane Olympic Stadium
Dont know whether to laugh or cry.

Fair dinkum, this looks as piss weak as the renderings for Princes Park when it was briefly proposed to be the Olympic stadium circa 1952. At least Princes Park had the excuse of the renderings being done 70 years ago.

Hillbilly Games, here we come.

 

[Royces Hart]

Fair dinkum, this looks as piss weak as the renderings for Princes Park when it was briefly proposed to be the Olympic stadium circa 1952. At least Princes Park had the excuse of the renderings being done 70 years ago.

Hillbilly Games, here we come.

Needs the old electronic scoreboard from VFL Park.

 

[BobbyMorri]

Very very very worried that Brisbane will embarrass us on the world stage.

Thank god it is not after Paris. Imagine going from the Palace of Versailles to the Big Pineapple.

Time for the Queensland Gov to stop penny-pinching and get it started. Queensland will need to replace the Gabba soon, then why not do it for the Olympics? No better reason.

Think the Gold Coast will be doing the heavy lifting for backdrops for the games

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Very very very worried that Brisbane will embarrass us on the world stage.

Thank god it is not after Paris. Imagine going from the Palace of Versailles to the Big Pineapple.

Time for the Queensland Gov to stop penny-pinching and get it started. Queensland will need to replace the Gabba soon, then why not do it for the Olympics? No better reason.

Think the Gold Coast will be doing the heavy lifting for backdrops for the games

With the benefit of hindsight, Sydney didn't use its main gem - The Harbour - to the full extent.

Sailing and Triathlon used it very well, but it was really the live sites and Bondi Beach that showcased Sydney in the sort way that Paris has showcased its great gems.

Centennial Park was showcased a bit with road cycling and the marathon going thru it, but it could have been used better with temporary facilites, which no doubt would have pissed off the locals.

Brisbane will have to think long and hard, but they do have the potential advantage over Sydney of having space to build a spectacular new stadium and indoor arena close to the city, if the potential new state government shows some courage, where as Sydney Olympic Park had the majority of venues, but it didn't really showcase Sydney, just proved Oz can built a new efficient central (geographically) sporting venues zone.

Melbourne with so many venues close to the city, probably is something Brisbane has to look at copying. No doubt the Gold and Sunshine coasts will be used to try and lift the backdrop, but with a 200km or so stretch to drive, its not ideal.

 

[eddiesmith]

With the benefit of hindsight, Sydney didn't use its main gem - The Harbour - to the full extent.

Sailing and Triathlon used it very well, but it was really the live sites and Bondi Beach that showcased Sydney in the sort way that Paris has showcased its great gems.

Centennial Park was showcased a bit with road cycling and the marathon going thru it, but it could have been used better with temporary facilites, which no doubt would have pissed off the locals.

Brisbane will have to think long and hard, but they do have the potential advantage over Sydney of having space to build a spectacular new stadium and indoor arena close to the city, if the potential new state government shows some courage, where as Sydney Olympic Park had the majority of venues, but it didn't really showcase Sydney, just proved Oz can built a new efficient central (geographically) sporting venues zone.

Melbourne with so many venues close to the city, probably is something Brisbane has to look at copying. No doubt the Gold and Sunshine coasts will be used to try and lift the backdrop, but with a 200km or so stretch to drive, its not ideal.

Plus it takes about 4 hours to drive from Brisbane to the Gold Coast!

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Plus it takes about 4 hours to drive from Brisbane to the Gold Coast!

Haha hopefully the constant road construction will be finished then and I suspect like Sydney, people in decent numbers will stay off the roads for 2 weeks or so.

 

[catstorm]

Plus it takes about 4 hours to drive from Brisbane to the Gold Coast!

WTF no it doesn’t, it’s a 45 minute drive.

 

[eddiesmith]

WTF no it doesn’t, it’s a 45 minute drive.

lol, you’d struggle to do it in 45 minutes at 2am in the morning!

 

[janty]

If they think the Seine River is bad just wait until they see the Brisbane river.

 

[2 eazy]

Please give it to Sydney save our great nation of embarrassment of Brisbane budget games. Sydney most logical option (Melbourne Commonwealth Games disaster excludes them for a long time).
Pretty much use all Sydney 2000 venues use money to modernize them. For new sports
Cricket played at SCG and Shrowground
Soccer and Rugby 7's played at 3 new state of the art stadiums in Moore Park, Penrith and Parramatta. Maybe stage some events near or around Opera House. BMX skateboarding rock climbing easily constructed temporary arenas quite cheap. Surfing in Narabeen. Easily make a profit, has great transport for all venues can't go wrong with Sydney.

 

[danielG]

lol, you’d struggle to do it in 45 minutes at 2am in the morning!

I drive it 3 days a week.. it’s a lot closer to 45 minutes than 4 hours.. would be 1.5 hours or a little less..
Im wondering, if there is a government change is there a greater likelihood of the new government actually opening up the purse strings?? A new stadium is an absolute no brainer, the Gabba shouldn’t have any money thrown at it, it’ll be dead money.. the infrastructure is a real issue here, the road network is awful, it needs money invested now or it won’t be close to up to scratch..
With The state governments cost saving approach, I can see us being embarrassed on a world stage.. Very concerning..


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[Royces Hart]

Please give it to Sydney save our great nation of embarrassment of Brisbane budget games. Sydney most logical option (Melbourne Commonwealth Games disaster excludes them for a long time).
Pretty much use all Sydney 2000 venues use money to modernize them. For new sports
Cricket played at SCG and Shrowground
Soccer and Rugby 7's played at 3 new state of the art stadiums in Moore Park, Penrith and Parramatta. Maybe stage some events near or around Opera House. BMX skateboarding rock climbing easily constructed temporary arenas quite cheap. Surfing in Narabeen. Easily make a profit, has great transport for all venues can't go wrong with Sydney.

In the event of Brisbane shitting the bed, I’d like to see it go back to Tokyo.

Iconic modern city with amazing facilities that they didn’t get to use properly due to Covid. Watching the crowds in Paris makes me feel sad for the people that missed out in Tokyo.

 

[Barrybran]

I don't know why people are fretting over Brisbane. Australia has always put on a good show when it comes to Olympic and Commonwealth Games.

 

[catstorm]

I don't know why people are fretting over Brisbane. Australia has always put on a good show when it comes to Olympic and Commonwealth Games.

Because the Queensland government is going back on all its promises and trying to penny pinch an Olympics, it’s ****ing embarrassing.

 

[The King!]

Build a proper stadium

 

[catstorm]

Build a proper stadium

Yeah no shit, Brisbane is going to embarrass us on the world stage.

Like seriously look back at the list of Olympics since Atlanta.

2000: Sydney (Iconic)
2004: Athens (So much history and culture)
2008: Beijing ( Spared no expense)
2012: London ( Went all out)
2016: Rio ( went all out)
2020: Tokyo (went all out)
2024: Paris ( Have put on a great Olympics)
2028: LA ( You watch, Olympics has gotten massive coverage in America this time, they will smash it)
2032: Brisbane ( The hillbilly how cheap can we make this games)

Never should have bid if they were going to do this.

 

[The King!]

Yeah no shit, Brisbane is going to embarrass us on the world stage.

Like seriously look back at the list of Olympics since Atlanta.

2000: Sydney (Iconic)
2004: Athens (So much history and culture)
2008: Beijing ( Spared no expense)
2012: London ( Went all out)
2016: Rio ( went all out)
2020: Tokyo (went all out)
2024: Paris ( Have put on a great Olympics)
2028: LA ( You watch, Olympics has gotten massive coverage in America this time, they will smash it)
2032: Brisbane ( The hillbilly how cheap can we make this games)

Never should have bid if they were going to do this.

Rio seemed to be the worst of the lot whilst still pretty good.

But yeah don't need temp stands for the Olympics. Precedent is set as you say

 

[2 eazy]

Have to wait after election either candidates won't want to talk about spending billions considering it may impact votes. If the government still wants to be cheap after state elections then please give it to sydney who have majority facilities there.

 

[The King!]

Bring it to Tassie we can get the stadium ready

 

[catstorm]

Have to wait after election either candidates won't want to talk about spending billions considering it may impact votes. If the government still wants to be cheap after state elections then please give it to sydney who have majority facilities there.

Melbourne could do it as well, probably to cold though.

Really should be delayed until like October for Australia.

 

[Royces Hart]

Everyone is going to love attending the open water events, literally in the middle of nowhere. Especially when they will have to be shuttled all the way from Ipswich. Perfect for the athletes too.