Loves sports
This Wednesday, IOC President Thomas Bach praised “the passionate love that Australians show for sport”, as well as their project for “Lasting Games”, “fully in line” with the IOC’s will to limit the impact of the sports event in the environment.
Australia, among the rare countries to have been present at all editions of the Summer Games, is “an immense Olympic village” with its multiple nationalities, ethnic origins and some 300 languages spoken, the country’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Wednesday. , by videoconference.
This designation, which had little suspense, had displeased Doha (Qatar), which also wanted to host the 2032 Games, as did Seoul and Pyongyang, which had submitted a joint bid from the two Koreas in April.
It is the third time in history that Australia will host the Summer Games, after Melbourne in 1956 and Sydney in 2000.
Well aided by the influence of Australian IOC Vice President John Coates, Brisbane she was a favorite since February to get the Games.
The Queensland region, already a candidate in the 1992 Games attributed to Barcelona and the 2018 organizer of the Commonwealth Games, also promises “84% of sites already built”, a key criterion since the Olympic instance began its hunt to avoid facilities created and then underused.
Seoul and Pyongyang, which had submitted a common two-Korean bid in April.