Brisbane Olympics 2032
Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:23 pm
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n ... n-brisbane
I've been following this slow moving disaster for a few months now. It's 8 years off but i reckon it'd be a good long term bet that the Brisbane Olympics will not happen. Not that i care, i despise the event, although i wouldn't despise it as much if they held it in the same city, or a small group of cities, every time. What i can't swallow is the colossal waste of money put into building infrastructure that often ends up being useless once the two weeks running and jumping is done with. It's obscene and depressing.
Brisbane don't have anywhere near the required infrastructure for this event. They have to build, or 're-develop,' multiple facilities and stadiums, at eye watering costs. Consider the disruptions associated with major constructions - the traffic, the noise, the light pollution (because they'll need to be building at night). But the joker is that Brisbane is hopelessly susceptible to extreme weather events and we know that it is only going to get worse. The city will almost certainly, at some point, be hit by a weather event that will require massive amounts of cash and effort to clean up, chaotic disruptions to everyday life and inevitable delays to building (sorry, redeveloping) giant fucking stadiums. The inevitability is almost comical, in fact.
It's not even relevant to mention the corruption of the IOC, the question is who the fuck thought this was a good idea to begin with, besides fucking John Coates? And i note today that there's even a plan to build a 15,000 seat soccer stadium in Toowoomba? Who is going to use that in 2033? It's great to know though that toontown's existing community infrastructure (swimming pools, libraries, community centres, childcare facilities and schools) is in such a healthy condition that it can afford to build a 15,000 seat stadium to service it's many hundreds of soccer players. That's a model town, right there.
It would take a bold politician to suggest it, but years of angst and generations of debt for the entire state could be avoided by just withdrawing the bid, now, before too much is pissed into the flooded Brisbane river. Not holding my breath though. This will likely be a long chaotic soap opera...in between floods, cyclones and fires.
I know people love the olympics and i don't want to sound like a grinch, but just do them in places where existing facilities can be used. It seems like such a simple solution. Too late for brisvegas though.
I've been following this slow moving disaster for a few months now. It's 8 years off but i reckon it'd be a good long term bet that the Brisbane Olympics will not happen. Not that i care, i despise the event, although i wouldn't despise it as much if they held it in the same city, or a small group of cities, every time. What i can't swallow is the colossal waste of money put into building infrastructure that often ends up being useless once the two weeks running and jumping is done with. It's obscene and depressing.
Brisbane don't have anywhere near the required infrastructure for this event. They have to build, or 're-develop,' multiple facilities and stadiums, at eye watering costs. Consider the disruptions associated with major constructions - the traffic, the noise, the light pollution (because they'll need to be building at night). But the joker is that Brisbane is hopelessly susceptible to extreme weather events and we know that it is only going to get worse. The city will almost certainly, at some point, be hit by a weather event that will require massive amounts of cash and effort to clean up, chaotic disruptions to everyday life and inevitable delays to building (sorry, redeveloping) giant fucking stadiums. The inevitability is almost comical, in fact.
It's not even relevant to mention the corruption of the IOC, the question is who the fuck thought this was a good idea to begin with, besides fucking John Coates? And i note today that there's even a plan to build a 15,000 seat soccer stadium in Toowoomba? Who is going to use that in 2033? It's great to know though that toontown's existing community infrastructure (swimming pools, libraries, community centres, childcare facilities and schools) is in such a healthy condition that it can afford to build a 15,000 seat stadium to service it's many hundreds of soccer players. That's a model town, right there.
It would take a bold politician to suggest it, but years of angst and generations of debt for the entire state could be avoided by just withdrawing the bid, now, before too much is pissed into the flooded Brisbane river. Not holding my breath though. This will likely be a long chaotic soap opera...in between floods, cyclones and fires.
I know people love the olympics and i don't want to sound like a grinch, but just do them in places where existing facilities can be used. It seems like such a simple solution. Too late for brisvegas though.