Wednesday July 21, 2021
Update
Planned cheaply and sustainably
Brisbane will host the 2032 Olympics
The 2032 Summer Olympics will take place in Brisbane, Australia. That is decided by the International Olympic Committee. It will be the 35th Summer Games and the 19th Paralympics in Olympic history. The sports world will be visiting Australia for the third time.
Thomas Bach wanted fewer losers, and shortly before the opening of the Corona Games in Tokyo there were really only smiling faces: The Australian city of Brisbane is hosting the 35th plenary session of the 138th General Assembly of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in a perfectly staged coronation mass Summer Olympics and 19th Paralympics in 2032.
The election of the IOC members in Tokyo’s luxury hotel Okura was purely a matter of form. President Bach and his executive had initiated everything and already in the spring praised the application as “irresistible”. There was no opponent, and even if IOC spokesman Mark Adams tried to create tension, the celebrations in Brisbane, the self-proclaimed “Home of the Olympics”, were well underway before the decision was made.
Four years after the double award of the 2024/2028 games, Thomas Bach has once again found an elegant way to create planning security with a host who is unlikely to produce any negative headlines in advance – and who should make the gigantism of the past forget with comparatively cheap and sustainable games .
DOSB boss Alfons Hörmann described Brisbane as the “perfect solution”. “Months ago we already emphasized that the city has everything it needs to be an excellent host for the 2032 Games. That is why we knew, unlike others, two years ago that Brisbane is a clear favorite for the award” said the President of the German Olympic Sports Confederation.
Rhein-Ruhr application failed
Brisbane’s application, which could be sure of the support of the Australian IOC vice and Bach confidante John Coates, was warmly recommended to the IOC by the “Future Host Summer Commission” at the end of February. The top of the rings organization then entered into a “targeted dialogue” with Brisbane, which was practically the same as the bid. “It is not a decision against the other candidates, it is a decision for a candidacy,” said Bach.
The other interested parties, including the German initiative Rhein Ruhr City or Qatar’s capital Doha, Jakarta in Indonesia, Budapest or Madrid felt offended – but Bach emphasized the supposed advantages of this approach: “We now have a pool of interested candidates for the 2036 and 2040 games. “
With a view to the 2024 Games, the fencing Olympic champion from 1976 complained that the process had “produced too many losers” after Hamburg, Rome and Budapest dropped out of the race prematurely or withdrew. In 2017, Bach made a virtue out of necessity, the IOC awarded the games to Paris in 2024 and Los Angeles in 2028 in order not to alienate any of the remaining top-class players and to secure the Olympic future. The IOC then set up a “future host” commission.
Maybe Rhein Ruhr will try again. From the start for 2032, however, a communication disaster remained, in which the initiative led by sports and event manager Michael Mronz was just as involved as the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB), which did not advertise the Games in a targeted manner – and was publicly dismissed by the IOC .
Brisbane failed in 1992
Brisbane, on the other hand, worked hard until the last day. Queensland’s Prime Minister Annastacia Palaszczuk, for example, took the grueling trip to Tokyo for a final advertising tour, where the 32nd Summer Games will begin on Friday under signs that no host would like – overshadowed by the effects of the pandemic in front of empty grandstands.
Australia, which will host the Games for the third time after Melbourne in 1956 and Sydney in 2000, wants to present a much happier, carefree picture in eleven years. For Brisbane it was the second attempt after the failed application for the 1992 Games.
Many sports facilities already exist, the budget (3.1 billion euros) is initially only a fraction of what was last spent in London, Rio and now Tokyo. Or in Beijing, where winter games of gigantic proportions will begin in just over six months in a context that is questionable in terms of human rights.
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