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You had the exact opposite situation between 1993 and 2021.LA in 1984 showed the games could make money, then Atlanta shamelessly bribed a shit load of IOC officials in 1990 and other countries were pissed off, so they re-bid, and China came into the mix and people knew the $$$$ of IOC finances and TV broadcasters wanted China.It was Oz's 3rd bid - Brisbane 1985 vote for 1992, Melbourne 1990 vote for 1996, so come the 1993 vote it was a now or never type thinking by the AOC and people who wanted to see the Olympics back in Oz. There was a 37 year gap from Melbourne when the vote happened. If Oz's biggest city couldn't win now, what chance do we have next time, was the thinking, after two trial runs. So it was a huge deal in 1993.The IOC then over the next 8-10 years changed its whole evaluation of bidding cities process. You have to get past a committee evaluation stage which was a very high bar compared to the past method and added to the expense of hosting a games. So over time these evaluation committees would only recommend 50% or less of the bidding cities.So come 2017, 4 or 5 cities withdrew their bids because there was strong local opposition to cities bidding, because of the expense involved. What we don't appreciate in Oz, was that a lot of European cities were hit hard by the GFC compared to Oz and a lot of cities there had invested in worthless financial assets issued by Wall Street, then London, Brussels, Berlin etc.Unlike Australian cities/ local governments, European cities have a lot more taxing powers and are more like Oz state governments and they have to bare the brunt of the financial impact of running an Olympics if they win the bid.In Sydney's case, it was the NSW state government who signed the IOC offer documents and provided the guarantees and the Sydney City Council played a minor role in the whole process.For Brisbane, there was an agreement signed by the 11 South East Queensland councils and this is a Queensland government bid in a joint venture with the federal government.German Thomas Bach became President of IOC in 2013. In 2012 as head of the German Olympic Committee he said Germany would make a bid. Early 2015, Hamburg was selected as the German city to bid, but they had a referendum to agree to proceed with a full on bid, in November 2015 and there was a 52% vote saying no to bidding for the games. So he couldn't get a German bid up. Other Euro cities pulled out because there wasn't enough local support driven by the fear of it being to expensive as costs always blew out.So come September 2017, only 2 bids were left standing, Paris and LA. They were both so outstanding, and given the other cities that initially bid, had pulled out because the public of those cities said they didn't want the games, the IOC said we will award 2 games in one hit because both these bid are so outstanding, it wouldn't be fair to make them do all this work again, and people of these 2 cities want the games.The French people and even Parisians celebrated heavily winning the Olympics bid.Brisbane's bid was made in the midst of the Covid pandemic when there was so much uncertainty and misery around and an 11 year time lag to the games.The 2032 vote should have taken place in September 2025, but because of what happened in 2017 with awarding 2 games at once and LA had an 11 year wait, Johnny Coates brilliantly and sneakily got Oz another Olympics, as the world just wanted to piss off Covid and get back to normal life.If the 2032 vote was indeed in September 2025, things would be very different, it would be very public unlike 2021, when people were locked up, and Brisbane / Queensland government probably pulls out of the bidding process.
You had the exact opposite situation between 1993 and 2021.
LA in 1984 showed the games could make money, then Atlanta shamelessly bribed a shit load of IOC officials in 1990 and other countries were pissed off, so they re-bid, and China came into the mix and people knew the $$$$ of IOC finances and TV broadcasters wanted China.
It was Oz's 3rd bid - Brisbane 1985 vote for 1992, Melbourne 1990 vote for 1996, so come the 1993 vote it was a now or never type thinking by the AOC and people who wanted to see the Olympics back in Oz. There was a 37 year gap from Melbourne when the vote happened. If Oz's biggest city couldn't win now, what chance do we have next time, was the thinking, after two trial runs. So it was a huge deal in 1993.
The IOC then over the next 8-10 years changed its whole evaluation of bidding cities process. You have to get past a committee evaluation stage which was a very high bar compared to the past method and added to the expense of hosting a games. So over time these evaluation committees would only recommend 50% or less of the bidding cities.
So come 2017, 4 or 5 cities withdrew their bids because there was strong local opposition to cities bidding, because of the expense involved. What we don't appreciate in Oz, was that a lot of European cities were hit hard by the GFC compared to Oz and a lot of cities there had invested in worthless financial assets issued by Wall Street, then London, Brussels, Berlin etc.
Unlike Australian cities/ local governments, European cities have a lot more taxing powers and are more like Oz state governments and they have to bare the brunt of the financial impact of running an Olympics if they win the bid.
In Sydney's case, it was the NSW state government who signed the IOC offer documents and provided the guarantees and the Sydney City Council played a minor role in the whole process.
For Brisbane, there was an agreement signed by the 11 South East Queensland councils and this is a Queensland government bid in a joint venture with the federal government.
German Thomas Bach became President of IOC in 2013. In 2012 as head of the German Olympic Committee he said Germany would make a bid. Early 2015, Hamburg was selected as the German city to bid, but they had a referendum to agree to proceed with a full on bid, in November 2015 and there was a 52% vote saying no to bidding for the games. So he couldn't get a German bid up. Other Euro cities pulled out because there wasn't enough local support driven by the fear of it being to expensive as costs always blew out.
So come September 2017, only 2 bids were left standing, Paris and LA. They were both so outstanding, and given the other cities that initially bid, had pulled out because the public of those cities said they didn't want the games, the IOC said we will award 2 games in one hit because both these bid are so outstanding, it wouldn't be fair to make them do all this work again, and people of these 2 cities want the games.
The French people and even Parisians celebrated heavily winning the Olympics bid.
Brisbane's bid was made in the midst of the Covid pandemic when there was so much uncertainty and misery around and an 11 year time lag to the games.
The 2032 vote should have taken place in September 2025, but because of what happened in 2017 with awarding 2 games at once and LA had an 11 year wait, Johnny Coates brilliantly and sneakily got Oz another Olympics, as the world just wanted to piss off Covid and get back to normal life.
If the 2032 vote was indeed in September 2025, things would be very different, it would be very public unlike 2021, when people were locked up, and Brisbane / Queensland government probably pulls out of the bidding process.
