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  1. You guys are going to get arthritis from all this hand wringing. All they need is a track with some fuckking seats around it. You're getting that. They should have just followed IOC recommendations and from day dot had athletics at Carrara. This is ridiculous - but it is what it is. For today. Tomorrow someone will be suggesting Bank Of Queensland Stadium in Townsville can fit a track. Who knows. It's 8 weeks of sports and I slready feel I've aged 8 years in the past few months.
  2. Oh Queensland doesn't get embarrassed. You need a certain level of self awareness for that
  3. I've had a good look at the numbers and my point is valid. The Gabba will get a spruce up. Suncorp will get a shine and QSAC will... get new seats. Bottom line is this - the money will be spent regardless of what anyone here hopes, dreams or wanks off over. It's not great. It's not even good - but it'll do. I'd rather this half arsed mess than a Sochi blow out, or even a Sydney that arguably took a decade or two to figure out what to do with their Olympic precinct. The bottom line is a Brisbane Olympics/Paralympics was always two parts sun stroke fever dream and three parts ego toss. This is what they are saying we are getting (today) and it is... fine
  4. Honestly - as a long term Brisbane resident (shudder) - this plan is fine. Just wait until the sexy, sexy QSAC renders come out. The only issue I see is transport. Still it's next to a major freeway, has the busway close. Trains are out as Banoon is a slog. Suncorp is a great stadium. It'll get a moderate capacity increase but will be a fine ceremony venue. They can easily hang cables, most seats are undercover and access is decent. I've rarely had dramas getting out of a concert/event there The Gabba plan was always stupid. The Brisbane Live plan across the rail lines was also fanciful. Just moving it North is.. fine. The white water stadium plans are diabolical though.
  5. The 2000 announcement was a different kind of win though. It came after Brisbane missed out of the 1992 Games and Melbourne missed out on 1996 - so there was a lot of years of Australia bidding prior to 1993. Most channels had full overnight live coverage - so when the decision was read out in Monaco at what - about 3:30am local time? - there were a lot of people staying up or getting up early to see if Beijing had bought the Games or if the right bid won. For 2032 there was no prior Aussie bids, no bid at all really. There was no breathless comparisons between Brisbane's plans and say - Hamburg, or Doha. It was just "Oh and by the way - that little project you local mayors have been whining about for the last year has come through - congrats?".
  6. Anyone thinking the Brissy Games are going to be basking in beautiful weather is delusional. You may get sun - but it won't be overly warm. The mornings can get chilly - around 8-10 degrees until it warms up to a balmy 18-22. It's decent - but it's no Barcelona.
  7. QSAC/QE2 has pretty much up to date athletics facilities - the athletes will be fine. The issue is the seating. At major concert events they don't sell the top rows of the end seating as frankly it is rickety as hell and probably a safety risk. If they could replace some seating with something temporary and safe, maybe new roofing on the permanent side stands and figure out a way to get people in and out without causing a meltdown on the freeway - it will do fine. The traffic infrastructure is dicey around there at the best of times - that whole Sunnybank turn off is a nightmare at peak hours. I may have to dig it up but I am pretty certain the IOC listed QSAC/QE2 and Carrara as acceptable alternate athletics venues in the candidate report thing they put out. One thing is for sure - the organisers are seen as fools around these parts. Yes - the Gabba needs work but spending billions to rebuild it, just to spend hundreds of millions to retrofit back to a proper oval after 6 weeks or so of Olympic/Paralympic use is insanity. Also not using Penrith for the white water is fucking baffling to say the least.
  8. Well. Now may be the time for the USA to reignite their ties with the Commonwealth. CWG Tulsa 2027?
  9. I am still stunned that Vegas was not chosen as a host. Surely FIFA would have loved all those casinos they could launder their kickbacks through? Plus the stadium is magnificent, ample hotel options for visitors... surely a missed opportunity.
  10. Nah - you are just fat. PS if you get rid of AF and like - post restrict that SportsLightning idiot - I may come back. I can assure you these two have killed the board for me and the others I am still in touch with. Also I came here just to read if this IOC E-sport thing was real. Wow. What complete idiocy.
  11. I'm still very much alive. Thanks for checking.
  12. DATELINE - December 15 Abuja, Nigeria In a shockingly banal move, 1976 Olympic gold medalist in fencing and IOC President Thomas Bach has sensationally allowed another city to enter the venerated Olympic Logo Competition! "I have told the Executive Board it is in their best interests to allow them to reconsider the initial picks." The 1976 Olympic gold medalist in fencing continued "they have been told to change course. As such I have weighed up the pros and cons for them and have decided to allow the previously elimunated Trojena,, Saudi Arabia to win this competition - a competion as close to my Golden heart as... say... the Youth Winter Olympics or the European Games!." The announcement was made as the 1976 Olympic gold medalist in fencing inspected the Nigerian capital's preparations for the 2014 Commonwealth Games. "I understand these Games were staged ovet 8 years ago in Scotland" the 1976 Olympic gold medalist in fencing remarked, "however Abuja will be a wonderful host for this long finished event." The 1976 Olympic gold medalist in fencing finally invited Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to offer how this momentous policy change had come about - "Death threats and Riyals". The assembled press throng of one guy from Around The Rings and a stray goat did not have any further questions.
  13. I promised myself that I would never get sucked into this shitfest again but this deserves a congrats. And now I shall enigmatically return to the real world and (potentially) never look back. Ohhhhhh mystery!!!
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