David Crisafulli needs to have some deft footwork when it comes to Brisbane 2032

Two Premiers have already been undone by the Olympics and only a flawless routine will stop it claiming David Crisafulli as well, writes Hayden Johnson.

Brisbane's Olympic Games have already brought down two Premiers.

Brisbane’s Olympic Games helped bring down two Premiers and only a flawless routine will stop it claiming a third.

Premier David Crisafulli entered the October election with the emphatic pledge of “no new stadiums”, largely to keep regional Queensland on-side.

They helped deliver the LNP government, but Mr Crisafulli must now twist, bend and balance to justify why this promise needed to be broken and, importantly, how Queensland will be better for it.

Victoria Park is at Winx odds to be chosen on Tuesday as the site of a new 60,000-seat stadium.

Mr Crisafulli will likely tell Queenslanders he wasn’t intending to build a multibillion-dollar stadium, but the hand-picked panel of experts insisted it’s the only way to go.

He’ll repeat the phrase we’re only in this mess because politicians have been too involved in decision-making.

Then, the Premier will probably tap the private sector to stump-up cash for the build and help ease the pain.

This will be a broken promise Mr Crisafulli has calculated carefully.

He and Games crooners Jarrod Bleijiie, David Janetzki and Tim Mander must convince sports-mad Queenslanders of the benefits of a new stadium.

Where Mr Crisafulli could stumble is if he listens to the experts on the Victoria Park Stadium but not Brisbane Arena.

Should that arena not go ahead, Brisbane would be missing the best opportunity to join the elite global cities and have an indoor arena in the inner city.

The government is confident Labor’s stadium attacks will only remind Queenslanders which party got us into this Olympic-sized hole.

After three wasted years of little infrastructure progress, construction of the new stadium should be well underway when the 2028 state election rolls around.

By then, Brisbane will be buzzing with post-Los Angeles Olympic fever.

Already, Opposition Leader Steven Miles’s social media attacks about Mr Crisafulli’s no new stadium pledge are going down like a fart in an elevator among the keyboard warriors.

He was overwhelmingly reminded who stuffed this all up.

Mr Miles sought to save his political skin by attempting to penny-pinch and turn the Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre into a 40,000 seat stadium.

He missed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity – win or lose last year’s election – to stand in a world-class Olympic stadium in 2032 knowing it’s there because of his conviction.

Mr Crisafulli can.

Originally published as David Crisafulli needs to have some deft footwork when it comes to Brisbane 2032