Olympic bid
Perspective
Brisbane 2032 Olympics
The Brisbane Olympics are eight years away. Time for a reality check
Progress has been thwarted by decisions and (healthy) debate, but has it meant we’ve lost our way? Can we still leverage the Games for the city’s wellbeing?
- by Courtney Kruk
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Perspective
Brisbane 2032 Olympics
Why those losing faith in the Brisbane Olympics should look to LA
Brisbane isn’t the only city to debate the cost of hosting the 16-day event while striving for a longer-term legacy outside of sporting venues.
- by Courtney Kruk
From the Archives, 1988: Melbourne and Sydney turn rivals in Olympic bid
In 1988, just hours after Melbourne released details of its proposal for the 1996 Olympic Games, the New South Wales Premier, Nick Greiner, announced Sydney would make a rivalling bid.
- by Jennifer McAsey
AOC prepares for new era after the challenges of Tokyo and Beijing
The Australian Olympic Committee will elect a president to replace the departing John Coates in April after navigating a tumultuous Olympic double act.
- by Phil Lutton
Denver once did the unthinkable – it won the Olympics only to give it back
Fifty years ago, a group of activists did the unthinkable – they made Denver give up the 1976 Winter Olympics, forcing the IOC to find another host city.
- by Les Carpenter
Former Brazil Olympic supremo gets 30 years in jail for buying votes for Rio Games
Carlos Nuzman has been found guilty of corruption and other crimes. A former Rio governor and two other officials have also been sentenced.
- by Mauricio Savarese
‘Good different’: Why Brisbane hopes to host the Aldi of Olympic Games
The Olympics are evolving in every sense. A city the size of Brisbane playing host is just the start. Organisers are being bold with their ideas for the 2032 showpiece.
- by Phil Lutton
Businesses urge early insight into historic 4000-day Games project pipeline
With an historic 11-year head start, economic and tourism experts have also warned more immediate benefits flowing from the Brisbane 2032 announcement would likely be from publicity alone.
- by Matt Dennien and Stuart Layt
Opinion
Olympics
Games legacies are far from clear but I’ll still be cheering on Brisbane 2032
The economic return of the Brisbane Olympics will be at least controversial, yet the bottom line aspires to little that most of us value.
- by Geoff Dickson
Analysis
Tokyo Olympics
Coates reminds Queensland Premier who is in charge
Among his extraordinary talents for navigating the born-to-rule bureaucracy of the IOC and bending the will of state and federal governments to his ends, John Coates has an Olympic-sized capacity for humiliation.
- by Chip Le Grand
Opinion
John Coates
Why I am grateful to John Coates (for his insulting treatment of Queensland’s most powerful woman)
For so long men have demeaned and degraded women, but too often it’s been invisible. The Australian Olympic Committee president, at least, has put it right out in the open.
- by Jenna Price
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