SYDNEY: Australian athletics great Raelene Boyle fears Brisbane 2032 will look like a"cheapskate" Olympics after the decision to stage the track and field at a 49-year-old stadium in the southern suburbs of the city.
Queensland Premier Steven Miles rejected that recommendation on the grounds of cost and decided rugby stadium Lang Park would host the ceremonies with the track and field shunted to the Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre . "I don't think it will be a great place to have track and field because it's old. It is a small stadium and it will have to be revamped dramatically.
Even that price tag was too high for Olympic powerbroker John Coates, one of the drivers of the International Olympic Committee 's New Norm process under which Brisbane was awarded the 2032 Games in 2021. "I am the IOC member in Australia and it's my duty to remind them the basis upon which they bid for the games," he added.