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Brisbane picked to host 2032 Olympics without a rival bid

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By GRAHAM DUNBAR

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Deepest sympathy to Brisbane and the Australian tax payers who will be lumbered with the bill for this ego fest.

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Bottakuri Danshaku and the other Lords of the Rings will have their income and pension plans assured for another 12 years! Gold, Silver and probably Bitcoin on their podium.

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Anyone old enough to remember the "Monorail" episode of The Simpsons?

I can imagine Brisbane after those games looking like one of the cities which bought a Monorail.

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A few years ago Brisbane held the commonwealth games, the infrastructure was so woeful and the city so under prepared that the Brisbane government had to request, urge, plead with people not to attend any events, this will be as big a train wreck as this Olympics, and I’m an expat living in japan

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Australia held successful games in 2000.. we will have successful games in 2032.. Japan was 100% for the games before COVID. Unfortunately the Japanese Government never took decisive action to immunise the population in preparation for the games or cancel.

It doesn't mater now.. Time to support the athletes.

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ego fest ??? and to others who think Olympics is useless...

There are many countries who can never be a part of world championship series yet they have athletes who work day and night to achieve something for their country and themselves and Olympic is perfect platform for that. Also, their are some games which has no place in world championship series but Olympics do. Yes its true there is lots of corruption and greed and high level but still its a very decent platform for players/athletes to achieve something. Michael Phelps, Usain bolt would be no-one without Olympics.

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... lol I see lot of typos in my last comment :D ing

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Interesting that the summer Olympics will be held in winter. If I remember correctly, the Sydney Olympics were held in September which seems better than July. But Brisbane's winters are not usually too cold, although this week temps have been around 14 degrees during the day.

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"Brisbane’s renowned cricket stadium, known as the Gabba, will be upgraded and may host the sport at the Games."

That means no more test matches at the Gabba in the future. A disservice to all the cricket fans.

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Please don’t. Not worth it. Get out while you still can.

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without a rival bid

That must bruise the IOC's collective ego. The fewer bidders there are, the fewer bribes there are.

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I would hardly call it a "race", with only one single contender... Hosting the Summer Olympics used to be a huge honour and could bring benefits (if not necessarily of the financial kind) to the host, but these days there doesn't seem to be any appetite for staging this mega event and incurring those huge costs anymore. One has to question whether the current format still makes sense or should be overhauled.

But at least Brisbane is unlikely to experience the huge issues Tokyo is facing during these trying days...

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Fewer bidders mean less efficiency and preparation.

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First there were no other bidders and their victory was a certain thing. So what is with the celebrations of victory is there was no opposition to beat.

Second it is insane. Doing the same thing as other cities which all made a loss at the Olympics and expecting it to come out differently for you is the definition of inasnity,

Third they are here in Tokyo watching the train wreck Olympics go on and they still cannot see something might be wrong.

An finally it will probably have to be cancelled as Australia will be the last country still locked down as they continue searching for the perfect zero COVID cases ( And Australia, unlike Japan, will break the contract and tell the IOC where to go if it involves something like COVID)

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Poisoned chalice if ever there was one

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The winter weather in Brisbane is so nice

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Without fewer bids is like going to the alter with out a bride!

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They did well enough with the Commonwealth Games. With clear skies and a fair wind (no pandemics, social upheavals etc) there’s every reason to expect Brisbane should see some decent benefits out of the Olympics.

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And the winner is ........................lol , headline should be , Brisbane burdened with ...........or punished with , hardly won it when they the only ones who put their hand up for it .

How much hype and BS is there with this damn circle of doom symbol event.

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Kiss of death for Brisbane.

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Only one bidder?

Hopefully they’re not still on lockdown.

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I guess they don't read the news much.

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without a rival bid

Words to salivate over.

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Poor brisbane and australian tax payers.

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Australia/ Brisbane need to negotiate higher %s of the braodcasting money as it was in the past. Now the IOC takes about half, but in the past they only got 10% or even 1%....Good luck and hold the line !

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