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No its not.

You want your world class athletes in Queensland to be able to have international standard facilities to train on at home base and you need those standard facilities to host world class events, including national championships, and to train up officials for those events.

The biggest show in town when the Olympics are on is athletics. So why shouldn't they get a legacy asset out of it just like Sydney did with the building of the Athletics Centre - promised in the Bid Book along with the Sydney Aquatics centre to be built even if Sydney lost the bid in 1993 - which was a warm up track next to Stadium Australia, and was built as a world standard and maintained after Sydney Olympics were over, and then they built a warm track for the Athletics Centre as that is needed to hold international and national championships.

So cricket and footy get a legacy asset for **** all, that is required for athletics. I hope they get charged a proper rental price on a $3.7bil asset then and not subsidized further then. Commercial properties you want 10% capital cost for rent, so $370m rent collected on 40 events per year. Could cricket and footy afford to pay nearly $10m an event day - or do they just want another freebie harry hand out??

The more I read the the 2 independent panels' reviews, the more I can see the Bid Book submitted by Palaszczuk's government and endorsed by John Coates and the AOC, was dodgy as hell.

Coates did his job to get a second Olympics to Oz, 32 years after Sydney, because he probably knows the next one Oz will get is around 2112, given the IOC and its chief broadcasters want a July/August games. But looks like there were a lot of dodgy short cuts taken.

Paris 1924 ........ next one 2024 - 100 years

London 1948 ..... next one 2012 - 64 years

Helsinki 1952 ...... next one ???

Rome 1960 ......... next one ???

Tokyo 1964 ......... next one 2020 - 56 years + covid delay 12 months

USA - Atlanta 1996 .. next one LA 2028 - 32 years

Munich 1972, Montreal 1976, Moscow 1980, Seoul 1988, Barcelona 1992, all these cities/nations haven't had a second games yet. They will want their games, as will China, oil rich Middle Eastern nations, other Euro and Asian cities.

So Coates used his power to get the Games back to Oz given what he AOC and SOCOG did in 2000, and then he leveraged that when he got onto the IOC and became as powerful an IOC member as anyone in the last 20 odd years.