Coates, Queensland premier at odds after Brisbane gets 2032 Olympics

“We are now a part of the IOC family and I will do what John Coates says.” - Palaszczuk

Absolutely atrocious! What a vile vulgar group the ioc is, for shame!

Don't ever let him bully you. Stand strong and do what you need to do. John Coates (Fatty VP) is even more evil than Thomas Bach (Baka P).

“You are going to the opening ceremony," 

Literally the day after the IOC got its hooks into Brisbane they are already brazenly giving commands to democratically elected leaders.

The Olympics are rotten to the core, Brisbane leaders were idiots to submit their city to IOC rule.

Hey, they railroaded right through Japan's Prime Minister, what's an Aussie state Premier to do? A sports organisation dictating politics, in the midst of a global pandemic. What a time to be alive...

Bunch of thugs.

"I don't want to offend anybody, so . . ." She had told critics of her trip to Tokyo

Too Late you are here in Tokyo for the Olympics you came !!

Its enough already you could have lobbied from your damn living room at home.

"You've never been to an opening ceremony," he said to Palaszczuk. "You don't know the protocols and I think it's a very important lesson for everyone here - opening ceremonies cost in the order of $75 million to $100 million. My very strong recommendation is the premier and the Lord Mayor and the minister be there and understand it."

$100 mill wasted squandered down the drain, and the IOC thug strongly recommends she attends, already strong arming their way around and the Aussie representatives.

These IOC creatures are disgusting !

"The IOC sets the stage, they are all powerful and have no problem dictating terms to political leaders," Heenan said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "The fact that the head of the AOC said that he or she should attend is another indication of Olympic autocracy."

Yep ruling and lording it over any country silly enough to want to host the circles of doom.

Brisbane have just bought themselves eleven years of stand-over tactics and bullying from the IOC.

Lets hope they stand up to these clowns and if needs be tell them where to stick their Olympics!

Oh come on.

Do you think she was ever going to come to Tokyo an not attend the opening games and some event etc?

Coates is just the scapegoat to hide this for political reasons. Blame him and she can now do all the things she intended whilst looking politically clean. Her skyrocket popularity may reach even newer heights whilst Australians cower in their homes. Yes I know Qld is not currently in lockdown like the other half the country but this won’t last long.

Shinzo Abe isn't going, is he? So it's not just the sponsors abandoning it.

You have to hand it to the IOC. Their arrogance and hubris are completely unaffected by the fact that their public image is taking an absolute thrashing over what's going on in Tokyo. They genuinely do seem to believe that they are above the law and answerable to nobody.

In the photo, are Coates and Bach doing the BS theatrics of the elbow bump, or is it more like the nudge, nude "You know what you have to do, luv. Just play your part."?

Goanna!

Don’t bite the hand that feeds. You are in too deep.

Probably more enjoyable and relaxing for her to watch the ceremony from her air-conditioned hotel room!

They’re all a bunch of hypocrites!

11 years, instead of the usual 7, for the International Organized Criminals to extract all they can from Brisbane / Queensland / Australia taxpayers. I wonder what new exorbitant demands the gang of 5-star hotel, red carpet loving mobsters will come up with this time. Good luck.

If I was Australian, I'd be seething. "One rule for you, none for me"

Brisbane should cancel now spend the money on infrastructure let no2 city get it….oh that’s right there is no no2.

So, she stays in her hotel room- so she should. That is the Coronavirus protocol.

Olympics are awarded to cities, not states or nations.

Therefore Lord Mayor of Brisbane goes - to end ceremony

And he’s a bloke and fossil Coates doesn’t have a gaff with him.

That is the public protocol.

still 11 years till Brisbane. Will Coates and Palaszczuk still be around then?

Say No

Will COVID be around then? Say Probably.

Different people can elbow each other then.

Are we at least starting to get the full picture?

Allegedly $32 billion later and counting..........

For a hop skip and jump, and the measurements of a teen beach volley ballers bikini?

John Cotes is clearly a very unpleasant person.

Just don’t let Bach nowhere near those games. We don’t need more imbeciles like those in Tokyo.

There is not a single redeeming diplomatic or political feature between Bach and Coates.

Not one, the duplicity, the need to leverage every dollar from broadcasting rights no matter what the coast to Japans heath care system or people.