The International Olympic Committee has warned Queensland against prematurely celebrating victory in the race for the 2032 Games - sensationally declaring "it's not a done deal".

We've gone from all that pomp and excitement to near silence. the IOC now exits to vote and we will have the live announcement very soon.

Simmons playing ? :)

and the winner is Briseney.

Will Bryce have gotten his citizenship by then?

Hopefully we'll be out of lockdowns by then

Is that the ONLY way we can get a gold medal - by hosting and controlling the whole set-up? Sheesh

The positive: there will be a brand new stadium built to host the basketball, whether it be the previously-touted Brisbane Live precinct or something elsewhere. Hopefully the Bullets are still around to make use of it thereafter.

It's amazing the difference in excitement in hosting the Olympics compared with a couple decades ago.

People have become increasingly cynical and negative compared to 2000. There was a certain positivity and hope that underpinned the Sydney Olympics, and a pride in showcasing ourselves to the world on that level. But now, everyone's like "Ha! No one else wanted it!"

Well, that's not actually true. Budapest and cities in Korea and Asia bid but were found to be unviable. Brisbane walks in as a city was basically everything it needs to hold an Olympics within 11 years.

As for it being a waste of money, excluding Tokyo, Olympics make money by increasing tourism, creating business and enhancing infrastructure. The Olympics put a city on the map and give it extremely valuable exposure which will have both obvious and unseen positive outcomes for the city. Estimates already suggest that Australia will make a 17 billion dollar profit from the games when all is said and done. And as has already has been mentioned, there is less upgrading needed for Brisbane than most other places.

It's interesting to think that the Boomers and Opals we'll see in 2032 are probably 10, 12, 13 years old today, playing club and social basketball on the weekends. The players we'll be rooting for then aren't even known to us now, save for maybe Dyson Daniels, Josh Giddey, Josh Green maybe. The Brisbane Olympics happen after likely two more complete national team resets. Who even know what the program will look like by then? They could be the kids who watch this year's crop (hopefully) medal...

I think holding the Olympics in Australia is a great move. The Sydney Olympics was called the greatest of all time by many people. This is an event we know how to hold and we have the facilities for. I expect to be in Brisbane cheering on the Boomers - whoever they'll be - in 11 years time.

rjd, I didn't even know there was a bid or announcement due until someone posted the thread!

This bit from the project (of all shows) is actually good on this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uKvfC8nHEM

Olympics don't make money for cities post Olympics. That’s been debunked time and again. Ask Rio how that’s gone, or Athens/Greece. Sydney was fiscally ok to some degree due to the huge volunteer base and the already required infrastructure upgrades.

Brisbane is in a financial position to actually profit from this as far as venues already viable to use and infrastructure in place. From memory it’s about 18+ billion off the book’s for Tokyo compared to an expected 5 billion for Brisbane to host.

Brisbane also don’t have it in the books just yet. There’s still potential it goes elsewhere but it’s basically sewn up

I just hope I'm alive still!

I'll have just ticked over the 50 mark that year, might have to be my present to myself. :D

Giddey, Green, Daniels and Proctor will be our veterans.

'898, at the point of your comment, only one person had suggested it was a waste of money. You might be reading too far into the rest.

Hopefully where medaling by then

Diop, medaling where?

Liz C for Opals coach

looked back at a few lists of what people had for this one, and my god they were wrong.

For me
Giddy
Daniels
Procter
King

are the only juniors rn who have shown the potential, that being said the development needed is often done between 19-23, ie- not everyone is gonna be this uber talent like giddey, simmons, green, bogut at 18-19.

For me a guy like blake jones would be someone with a big potential if he can transition is game into a wing/4. But

I will be going to the basketball in Brisbane.

Idc who plays or if we loose every game with blake 'slow' jones

Kids playing for the Boomers in 2032 could be anything from 8 to 15 years old now and we wouldn't have even heard of them. The guys we do know that will be involved are pretty solid but will form "the old guard" in kind of the same way Patty, Ingles, Delly, Baynes and til now, Bogut did.

Giddey
Green
McDowell-White
Thybulle
Dyson Daniels

are probably comfortable "locks" in as much as there can be locks, on this team

Will Magnay 34
Thon maker will be 35
Jock Landale will be 36
Isaac Humphries at 34 is probably near enough to making it so he's possible
Ben Simmons (if he ever suits up) 36
Dante Exum at 37 - aging out of it

Given the ages of the Spanish team, there is definitely some scope for these guys to make the team as well.

The obvious holes that a squad like this would need filled are shooting and some up and coming big men.

DJ Vaseljivic will be 35 years old so still somewhere within useful.

Either way, it takes a whole lot of speculation to do any projections out to a full 11 years. There's always some kid that comes out and surprises you. We have a full two Olympic cycles to go before these questions are even asked. But what we do surely have is evidence that we 'should' have a solid base of veterans to sit around whoeever does emerge, so as far out as this is, I remain optimistic we will have decent teams going into the future.

Anon, notice I said "required". I never said they had already done the work. In other words, infrastructure was already required and the 2000 Olympics simply helped to speed up the process and interred in doing so.

Westpac have apparently claimed they expect a 17 billion boost to the economy from the 2032 Olympics. Would mean it's actually profitable. If it cost as much as Tokyo (pre-Covid) it would’ve been a net loss.

On another note. Will they share events with the rest of the nation beyond the confirmed football events at Sydney and Melbourne. Sydney had things spread out pretty much for the entire country to get a taste. Would be a good move to continue this you'd imagine

Brisbane a lot of the infra already exists.

The rest is upgrades to existing infra like Gabba etc. which obviously is used all year round.

The permanent new infra like aquatic makes sense; and the temporary infra is small and relatively inexpensive.

Cities like Brisbane and Melbourne can do olympics cost effectively unlike a lot of other cities around the world

It's definitely not hyperbole when they say Australia is a sporting nation, and that's proven by the fact that we've had three cities that have shown themselves suitable to host the Olympics. It doesn't surprise me at all that a place like Brisbane will be able to do the games without having to turn themselves upside down. The infrastructure is basically there, and has been outlined in their proposal, any update that is needed to accommodate the games has a purpose beyond those games anyway.

There are a lot of social commentators having a good old fashioned whinge about the apparent 'cost' of the games, highlighting things that apparently are bigger priorities. These people act like this is going to cost the same as it does for Tokyo or Rio, and that's clearly not the case. They seem to think over the next 11 years their other perceived needs could not possibly be met in any other way. They're also the type of people who like to kill entertaining and fun things because they have no joy in their lives.

Then there's the argument that apparently no one else wanted the games. That's hogwash. Numerous cities wanted the games but were proven unsuitable against updated criteria.

And this is the important thing to me. I remember watching the mess around the Rio Olympics and wondering why the Olympic committee insisted on holding their events in third world conditions. If I remember right there were questions around if stadiums were ready, Zika virus, sewerage running through the water they were using, and an all out political mess engulfing the country. We tend to look back on the Olympics with rose coloured glasses but it is fairly common whenever they're held in places like Rio that issues are plenty. Brisbane presents as a safe, modern and well equipped city that might not have the international renown that somewhere like Rio or Tokyo or Paris does, but that very well might by the time the Olympics are done. The Olympics puts cities on the map, and that's another fact the naysayers forget. Sydney is STILL reaping the benefits of their Olympics.