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  1. Surely an Aldi Olympics is one where the organisers fall out and end up splitting the enterprise in two? Hmmm...maybe it is an apt description actually. I look forward to seeing Brisbane's two logos, one adorning each of their Olympic Stadiums.
  2. Given the number of stadiums seemingly in the mix, the geography, the infinite layers of government, and other issues this is extremely hard to follow from the other side of the world. But why not just give the Gabba a better spruce up? It sounds like it's going to need it in the next decade or so anyway, why not do it once and properly, using the Olympics as the opportunity to grasp the nettle? It looks to me - after rejecting the review - that they're now going to do a half-arsed job with two stadiums, rather than one good job with either an existing stadium (Gabba) or with a new one (VP?). Maybe half-arsed in unfair, but that's sort of how it looks to me. Obviously I'm willing to be corrected. This is all far too confusing. (good to see you back too!)
  3. Just to be clear, the stadium I was talking about was close to a billion pounds in 2019. So nearly 2 billion Australian dollars. And our chairman says with increased costs we wouldn't be able to pull off the project if we were planning it today. So for a new 50-60k stadium a figure north of 2.5bn Australian dollars looks about right.
  4. Comparing to what I know (Tottenham Stadium, £1bn, 62k seats, opened in 2019, same architect as Lyon Stadium), it also comes across as a lot. But things have changed even compared to a few short years ago...
  5. OK, reading the two posts above, the idea makes more sense than I originally thought - though the loss of parkland seems far from ideal and the potential trigger for a new round of protests. It just seems weird that a) a report commissioned because things were getting too expensive is arguably offering a more expensive solution and b) a country which has national sports that use large oval stadiums is making such a meal out of this. Hey, it's not my money. Some new stadium renders, a stadium build to watch and a shiny new Olympic Stadium. All fine with me. But I'm not the person who's paying for this or who is losing parkland or who is going to have to deal with any fallout. Let's see what Brisbanites, politicians, the IOC and IFs make of it all...
  6. Is this a high stakes poker game to get people back on board with the Gabba project?
  7. OK, it's not going to be cheaper, but this is the recommendation anyway. lol.
  8. Sounds good, here's hoping it comes off.
  9. Not sure @Scotguy II wants to talk about Rugby today.
  10. As far as I can see, the stuff about 32 years is the Guardian's interpretation of her explanation. And to be fair, we're only really ruling ourselves out of bidding for the next two available editions. That's hardly a terrible bombshell, we can't bid for everything and 2012 was recent. We don't want to become the Madrid of the 2030s. And if the IOC really needs a host and wants e.g. London to step up there's plenty of time for things to change. I'm much more disappointed about no attempt to land a men's World Cup. USA, Spain, Germany, Mexico all had two (Mexico 3) since our last one.
  11. UK Sport outlined this week what we're going to try for: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/mar/05/uk-sport-womens-world-cup-fifa-britain-host tl;dr - no men's world cup, no Olympic bid until at least the 2040s, no Commonwealth Games, women's world cup is the big aim for the 2030s, another World Athletics in 2029 or 2031, Tour de France stages, another Rugby World Cup, and more urban/esports events. So probably time to call it day with regard to this thread: UK Sport also downplayed the possibility of hosting the Olympics until at least 2044, given that the US and Australia both waited 32 years between Games. “To the IOC – with us hosting the games in 2012 – we are still a recent host,” said Esther Britten, head of major events at UK Sport. “We can’t see that until the 2040s at the earliest.”
  12. Birmingham has bigger worries atm (as do most local authorities but Birmingham is particularly bad)... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-68483264
  13. A government spokesman has already nixed the idea that New Trafford will get public funding. I think Jim was hoping for that, but I think his ask now is for public funding for general regeneration around a new stadium. Which I think is arguably fair enough. Coe is an interesting choice for what is supposed to be a scoping study around how the development would work. Obviously he was in charge of LOCOG not the ODA, so a bit odd. But I guess he was also instrumental in getting the then government to back an Olympic bid at all (when everyone thought it was Paris' to lose). If Jim and co are hoping for substantial funds to kick off some kind of public/private initiative then maybe having a politician like Coe is what they need at this stage. As for a Manchester Olympics. No, I don't think that's being considered. For one thing, it's not been mentioned. For another, I don't know if there's room for an athletics stadium on that site. It's tight enough as it is and there's speculation they'll need to knock a stand down at Old Trafford in order to build a new stadium next door. The bigger footprint of an athletics stadium would seem unlikely.
  14. Seems like that's a major news story over there huh? I only heard about it after clicking the Aussie News thread on SSC.
  15. If the IOC is making public (as they are) that any Russians competing are only doing so because they've condemned the war, it doesn't matter if the athlete in question has said anything publicly. Just their presence would be enough to condemn them.
  16. Is this really what the IOC is doing? I assume they're also going arrange asylum/witness protection for such athletes after the Games? Making athletes choose between their nation and their career - when their nation is a brutal fascist dictatorship with a history of poisoning detractors abroad - is fucking appalling and a huge abrogation of the IOC's most basic responsibility, athlete safety. All because Bach and co can't make a decision. This is somehow even worse than just letting Russia compete. I mean, even if Russia pulls all its athletes, by that stage will their authorities know who's co-operated with the IOC and condemned the war? Or is the IOC hoping they'll all be too scared and the problem will just go away nice and conveniently?
  17. And anyone who uses the word 'woke' is basically this guy... Yes, about two or three years ago every right-wing outlet started using it, seemingly within a few weeks of one another. Now it's hard to avoid. My 'favourite' use of it so far was The Scum's take on a BBC documentary about dinosaurs... The right-wing on both sides of the Atlantic have undergone mass lobotomies. It's the only logical explanation.
  18. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_persecution_complex The worst thing about this is the BBC is giving these morons coverage.
  19. I think it's the Stade de France
  20. The Gabba is a hemmed in stadium. It'd be a very small park.
  21. Can you set monsters and UFOs on it? My God, how have we not thought of this before - build an arcology for the Olympic Village...would solve so many issues!
  22. With them being every other year there ought to be enough championships for new and established hosts, although we do look like we're going to have a run of fairly established nations coming up. Watching the indoors (good job Glasgow), they were saying during the BBC coverage the WACs could become an annual end of season event. Obviously the increased frequency would open up even more opportunity. https://www.trackalerts.com/2024/02/no-more-waiting-world-athletics-championships-in-athletics-to-be-annual-affair-from-2025/ But in terms of London (and I'm sure this applies to other potential hosts as well) it leads to a clash with the football season - so our seemingly surefire bid might have a spanner thrown into the works. So that's one thing to keep an eye on.
  23. Yep, as I posted in the London 2012 thread, looks like we're throwing our hat in as well...
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