Tejas57 Posted July 17, 2023 Report Posted July 17, 2023 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-18/victoria-commonwealth-games-announcement-daniel-andrews/102613156 Victoria to axe Commonwealth Games plans due to financial constraints, ABC understands even bigger. looks like Mel has scrapped the games completely. this could be massive and kill the games Quote
Australian Kiwi Posted July 17, 2023 Report Posted July 17, 2023 Yep - its completely cancelled. Got Denver 76'ed! Good riddance. However this looks like the end of the road for the entire event. I can't say this is going to bode well for interest from Canadian and NZ parties for 2030/34. The Queen is dead. Just let thing be known as an event that existed from 1930 to 2022. Quote
stryker Posted July 17, 2023 Report Posted July 17, 2023 Time to get London on the phone and pay whatever it takes? Or does the CWF just cancel 2026 entirely? Quote
Australian Kiwi Posted July 17, 2023 Report Posted July 17, 2023 2 minutes ago, stryker said: Time to get London on the phone and pay whatever it takes? Or does the CWF just cancel 2026 entirely? The whole thing is tanked. Even Hamilton - host city of the inaugural event in 1930 - didn't want the 2030 Centennial Games. Quote
TorchbearerSydney Posted July 17, 2023 Report Posted July 17, 2023 Melbourne should have just hosted a scaled down version itself....it has all the facilities, and could have used hotels instead of a village. Always thought dumping it in scattered small towns was a bit unrealistic. 1 Quote
RooBlu Posted July 18, 2023 Report Posted July 18, 2023 It was the fiscally responsible thing to do. Costs projected to blow out to $6-7 billion. Nah, a good decision. I can't even begin to imagine what the Brisbane Olympics will blow out to cost. They said that they would do it for $5.5 billion. I am conservatively guessing a bill of upwards of $30 billion to host the 2032 Games. Quote
ulu Posted July 18, 2023 Report Posted July 18, 2023 Who'd have thought ignoring all those existing venues would be a bad idea and cause an enormous cost blowout. 1 Quote
RooBlu Posted July 18, 2023 Report Posted July 18, 2023 On 7/10/2023 at 10:19 AM, Victorian said: I think that we will see the station built. They will cave in. Possibly will now that the time line pressure is off. The government have still committed to build the promised sports facilities and social housing as it was all within the original budget. Quote
Guilga Posted July 18, 2023 Report Posted July 18, 2023 Never tought i would see something like it live just casually catching ABC News youtube stream from Brazil, but here i am. Quote
BigVic Posted July 18, 2023 Report Posted July 18, 2023 Perth's Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas is interested and is keen to step in. We've seen it in the past with Perth stepping in to host the 2021 AFL Grand Final in expense of Melbourne 1 Quote
Australian Kiwi Posted July 18, 2023 Report Posted July 18, 2023 12 minutes ago, TorchbearerSydney said: Melbourne should have just hosted a scaled down version itself....it has all the facilities, and could have used hotels instead of a village. Always thought dumping it in scattered small towns was a bit unrealistic. Yep - Melbourne was the Innsbruck, instead we gave them the Denver. 1 Quote
Guilga Posted July 18, 2023 Report Posted July 18, 2023 So, what this news gives to multi-sport events as a whole? The Commonwealth Games is of a lower caliber but even then, in a place this could work, it still balooned in costs and quitted so the money could be expend in other more productive ways. Maybe the concept is charming for all of us, but is it viable without costs streching so much that it becomes a burden? These Commonwealth Games might be a canary in a coal mine... Quote
Gonzo Posted July 18, 2023 Report Posted July 18, 2023 Fk me dead, even this whole event was a idiotic folly from Day 1, didn't even see this coming Victoria's reputation is destroyed for decades now Well done Dan And the corrupt clown says in his press conference they will still spend $2 billion building/upgrading sporting facilities in regional victoria (and claims (aka - lies through his teeth) - that the event itself would cost $4.5 billion to spend on top of that And yet Victorians keep voting for this idiot and his corrupt party Quote
Gonzo Posted July 18, 2023 Report Posted July 18, 2023 Quote Opposition Leader John Pesutto said the decision was a “massive humiliation”. “This decision is a betrayal of regional Victoria and confirms that Victoria is broke and Labor simply cannot manage major projects without huge cost blowouts,” he said. “The cancellation of the Commonwealth Games is hugely damaging to Victoria’s reputation as a global events leader. “Instead of a lasting legacy of housing, sporting and community infrastructure, Daniel Andrews and Jacinta Allan’s botched Games will only leave a legacy of failure and missed opportunities. “Labor simply cannot be believed any longer as it continues to break promises because of its own incompetence.” Quote Deakin MP Michael Sukkar said: “Now that Daniel Andrews had cancelled the 2026 Commonwealth Games because they had bankrupted the state, he should resign”. HEAR HEAR! RESIGN! Quote
TorchbearerSydney Posted July 18, 2023 Report Posted July 18, 2023 Q: Perth's Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas is interested and is keen to step in Perth would be a great option- fantastic new stadium, new huge indoor arena...and the state is reaping in huge budget surpluses through mining a the moment. They can even ship a couple of events like cycling to Adelaide if they need to. Quote
TorchbearerSydney Posted July 18, 2023 Report Posted July 18, 2023 Andrews is one of the most popular politicians in the country, and increased his majority at last years elections after a decade in power. The people have spoken. Quote
Gonzo Posted July 18, 2023 Report Posted July 18, 2023 https://twitter.com/georgiecrozier/status/1681096841293881344?s=20 Quote
Scotguy II Posted July 18, 2023 Report Posted July 18, 2023 To be honest not surprised, the downside of a region hosting rather than a city, too many venues and too much money/building needing to be done, also in such a short space of time. Melbourne should have just hosted it alone. At least Durban didn't get to show off at the handover in Gold Coast, unlike Victoria lol. Ideally the CGF will want to try and get a new host for the games rather than just can it all completely. They might even change the cycle of years. i imagine there will be a lot of talks at the CGF about potential hosts. I would like to see Glasgow do it again as the venues are all there, but 3 years is not much time even for a games ready city like Glasgow. Quote
Gonzo Posted July 18, 2023 Report Posted July 18, 2023 Just now, Scotguy II said: too many venues and too much money/building needing to be done, yet they are still going to spend $2 billion building venues/$1 billion on the villages for community housing they claim the reason to cancel is the extra (not originally estimated) $4.5 billion it will cost on "running the games LOL $4.5 billion. Smells like DAN PR BS Quote
TorchbearerSydney Posted July 18, 2023 Report Posted July 18, 2023 Another emergency option is just give the Games (for example) to Australia- and six cities host 2 events each. This would cost next to nothing, no new venues and hotel use. Quote
Guilga Posted July 18, 2023 Report Posted July 18, 2023 Now taking a look in what happened to Denver 76, i must say we might have a new terminology ready for being coined; Pulling a Denver: The public votes the funding of the games out, thus cancelling the games. Pulling a Victoria: The state unilaterally withdraw funding and cancel the games. Good food for tought. Quote
Gonzo Posted July 18, 2023 Report Posted July 18, 2023 Can I just throw in this little timebomb So Victoria cancels the 2026CG over the total claimed overall cost of $7.5 billion ($2 billion infrastructure/$1 Billion housing/$4.5 billion "games operations") Brisbane 2032 is currently costed/budgeted at $7.1 billion 1 Quote
Sir Rols Posted July 18, 2023 Report Posted July 18, 2023 37 minutes ago, TorchbearerSydney said: Q: Perth's Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas is interested and is keen to step in Perth would be a great option- fantastic new stadium, new huge indoor arena...and the state is reaping in huge budget surpluses through mining a the moment. They can even ship a couple of events like cycling to Adelaide if they need to. Let’s just have regional WA. Venues in Broome, Kalgoorlie, Port Hedland. What could go wrong? Quote
TorchbearerSydney Posted July 18, 2023 Report Posted July 18, 2023 Brisbane gets huge amounts of cash from TV Rights, Sponsorships, Ticket sales etc.... even an IOC payment. With the high USD (like in Sydney 2000) this adds up to a lot of AUD.... Also Brisbane has 11 years- Melbourne only had 5 years, and construction costs are crazy at the moment when the are in a rush. This inflates costs (the same happened to Athens and Rio). 2 Quote
Gonzo Posted July 18, 2023 Report Posted July 18, 2023 FWIW Birmingham's final budget was $A1.28 billion VIC2026 - $7.5 billion The sycophantic Spring Street journalists need to call out Dan's BS Quote
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