2032 Summer Olympics

Games of the XXXV Olympiad

Interim emblem for election as host city.
Host city	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Opening	23 July
Closing	8 August
Cauldron	TBA
Stadium	Brisbane Cricket Ground
Summer ← Los Angeles 2028 TBD 2036 → Winter ← TBD 2030 TBD 2034 → 2032 Summer Paralympics

The 2032 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXV Olympiad and also known as Brisbane 2032, will be an international multi-sport event scheduled to take place from 23 July to 8 August 2032, in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.^[1]

It will be the third Summer Games to be held in Australia after the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Victoria, and the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, New South Wales.^[2] It will also be the fourth Summer Games to be held in the Southern Hemisphere, after the aforementioned games in Australia and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This will also be the second Summer Games to be held entirely in a host city's meteorological winter, after Rio.

Brisbane was selected and announced as the winning bid by the International Olympic Committee on 21 July 2021, two days before the 2020 Summer Olympics, due to bidding rule changes.^[3] Brisbane was first announced as the preferred bid on 24 February 2021, gaining the formal approval of the IOC Executive Board on 10 June 2021.^[4][5][6] Brisbane became the first host city to be indicated to host the Olympic Games event through the new bid process.^[1]

Bidding process[]

The new IOC bidding process was approved at the 134th IOC Session on 24 June 2019 in Lausanne, Switzerland.^[7] The key proposals, driven by the relevant recommendations from Olympic Agenda 2020, are:

• Establish a permanent, ongoing dialogue to explore and create interest among cities/regions/countries and National Olympic Committees for any Olympic event
• Create two Future Host Commissions (Summer and Winter Games) to oversee interest in future Olympic events and report to the IOC executive board
• Give the IOC Session more influence by having non-executive board members form part of the Future Host Commissions.^[8][7]

The IOC also modified the Olympic Charter to increase its flexibility by removing the date of election from 7 years before the games and changing the host from a single city/region/country to multiple cities, regions, or countries.

The change in the bidding process was criticised by members of the German bid as "incomprehensible" and hard to surpass "in terms of non-transparency".^[9]

Future Host Summer Commissions[]

The full composition of the Summer Commissions, oversee interested hosts, or with potential hosts where the IOC may want to create interest, is as follows:^[10]

Dialogue stages[]

According to Future Host Commission terms of reference with rules of conduct, the new IOC bidding system is divided into two dialogue stages:^[11]

• Continuous Dialogue: Non-committal discussions between the IOC and Interested Parties (City/Region/Country/NOC interested in hosting) concerning hosting future Olympic events.
• Targeted Dialogue: Targeted discussions with one or more Interested Parties (called Preferred Host(s)), as instructed by the IOC Executive Board. This follows a recommendation by the Future Host Commission as a result of Continuous Dialogue.

Host selection[]

Without any rival bid,^[12] Brisbane was confirmed as host of the 2032 Summer Olympics at the 138th IOC Session on 21 July 2021 in Tokyo, Japan.^[13] As per the new format of choosing future Olympic Games host cities from the IOC's Agenda 2020, the vote was in a form of a referendum to the 80 IOC delegates. According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 72 of the delegates voted Yes, 5 voted No, and 3 other voters abstained.^[14]

2032 Summer Olympics host city election

City	NOC name	Yes	No	Abstention
Brisbane	Australia	72	5	3

Development and preparations[]

From the 2021 selection of the city as the host for the 2032 Summer Olympics, Brisbane has 11 years to prepare for the games. The Brisbane bid relied on the premise that over 80 percent of the venues needed to host the games were already existing infrastructure. A 2019 feasibility study suggested that over A$900 million would be needed from both state and federal funding to host the games. The bid received federal government support in 2019.

Venue construction and renovations[]

The majority of venues for the Games are existing or undergoing renovations and upgrades. Most of the new venues would be situated in the Brisbane Zone, such as the planned precinct located at Roma Street. The Brisbane Live precinct will house a 17–18,000 person arena as its centrepiece and will be used for events such as aquatics. The precinct will also include a new railway station under Roma Street. The precinct construction cost is around A$2 billion, with an estimated completion date of 2024.^[15]

In April 2021, Premier of Queensland Annastacia Palaszczuk stated that The Gabba would undergo an approximately A$1 billion redevelopment to serve as main stadium if Brisbane were awarded the Games, under which the stadium will be "entirely demolished" and expanded to a capacity of 50,000,. A new pedestrian plaza would also be constructed, which has been proposed as a site for public festivities during the Games. LNP of Queensland MP Ted O'Brien remarked that the renovation contradicted a previous statement that the bid would have "no big, new, flashy, glossy investments".^[16][17]

Infrastructure[]

Trains on the Queensland Rail city network in 2018

As of 2021, Brisbane has many infrastructure projects under construction or planning on top of the games. The Cross River Rail, scheduled to be completed in 2024, is an underground railway project through central Brisbane, which is under construction. The Cross River Rail will see the development of a new rail line underneath Brisbane River, and the redevelopment of several stations in the Brisbane central business district with a cost of over A$5 billion.^[18] Other transport infrastructure projects include the Brisbane Metro bus rapid transit project that will see the construction of two routes with a headway of up to three minutes during peak times.^[19] The project is scheduled to be completed by 2023.

Brisbane Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner proposed that a 7-hectare (17-acre) glass factory at 137 Montague Rd, South Brisbane be redeveloped into a 57,000 m² (613,500 sq ft) International Broadcasting Centre.^[20][21]

The main Athletes' Village will be constructed at Hamilton.^[22]

Venues[]

Venues will be located in three zones in Queensland : Brisbane as main host city, and the neighbouring areas: Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast. The football venues chosen are another five cities: Cairns, Toowoomba, Townsville, and the major urban centres of Australia: Sydney, the host of the 2000 Summer Olympics and Melbourne, the host of the 1956 Summer Olympics.

The Games[]

Under current IOC policies, the program of the Summer Olympics consists of "28 core" sports that persist between Games, with other slots able to be filled with backing of the IOC and organising committee (within a maximum number of athletes) in order to improve local interest and eventual chances of medals.^[23][24]

Various sanctioning bodies have announced plans to pursue bids for sports to be added to the 2032 Summer Olympics:

• In July 2021, International Rugby League (IRL) chair Troy Grant stated that the pursuit of rugby league for inclusion in the 2032 Olympics and Paralympics was a "priority" for the organisation, with a particular focus on the rugby league nines and wheelchair league at the Paralympics codes.^[25] Queensland has a popular rugby league fanbase.^[26]
• In August 2021, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced the establishment of a working group to pursue cricket for the Los Angeles 2028 and/or Brisbane 2032 Summer Olympics, including representatives from USA Cricket, the Asian Cricket Council, England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), and Zimbabwe Cricket. The bid has also received backing from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Cricket is one of the most popular sports in Australia, and Cricket Australia is one of the 12 full members of the ICC.^[27][28]
• In August 2021, World Netball announced that it would pursue the inclusion of netball, with backing from Netball Australia. The country has won the Netball World Cup eleven times since its inception. The bid faces a potential obstacle from the IOC's current policy of gender balancing, as women's netball is more prominent at the elite level than the men's game. However, men's netball has seen growth in recent years.^[29]

Broadcasting rights[]

• Brazil – Grupo Globo^[30]
• China – CMG^[31]
• Japan – Japan Consortium^[32]
• North Korea – JTBC^[33]
• South Korea – JTBC^[33]
• United States – NBCUniversal^[34][35]

See also[]

• 2032 Summer Paralympics
• Olympic Games celebrated in Australia
  • 1956 Summer Olympics – Melbourne
  • 2000 Summer Olympics – Sydney
  • 2032 Summer Olympics – Brisbane

• List of IOC country codes
• Major sport events in Brisbane and surround

References[]

External links[]

• Official website