Australia/NZ 2025

[Sbooker]

No snow new yet but we have a tropical cyclone about to cross the coast at Brisbane for the first time since my birth year in 1972.
Hopefully it’s not too damaging.

https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/no-south-east-queensland-dam-releases-until-rain-from-cyclone-alfred-begins/news-story/be556f1df0aaa66a41bbd3fac8549fda?amp

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/flooding-risk-high-as-eye-of-tropical-cyclone-alfred-locks-on-brisbane/news-story/08cefe414f20a0a319066dc8e177eb70?amp

 

[Tony Crocker]

I have remarked before how similar Brisbane's climatology is to my summer 2020 abode in Florida.

 

[ChrisC]

Does Brisbane have the infrastructure to host the games?

San Francisco or Miami might be stretched, even Seattle - some cities I am familiar with.

 

[Sbooker]

Does Brisbane have the infrastructure to host the games?

San Francisco or Miami might be stretched, even Seattle - some cities I am familiar with.

No. It doesn’t. We were the only bidder for 2032. Our previous Premier chased the Olympics as she wanted a legacy. It was a very dumb idea to almost everyone but her.

 

[EMSC]

Does Brisbane have the infrastructure to host the games?

No. It doesn’t.

Not a surprise, really. With all the sports that keep getting added very few cities in the world have that kind of infrastructure.

 

[Tony Crocker]

With all the sports that keep getting added very few cities in the world have that kind of infrastructure.

L.A. certainly does. We have a lot of new venues in recent years: SoFi for the Rams/Chargers, Intuit for the Clippers, BMO soccer stadium for LAFC. In addition, Staples/Crypto and USC's Galen Center were not here for the last Olympics in 1984.

 

[Sbooker]

L.A. certainly does. We have a lot of new venues in recent years: SoFi for the Rams/Chargers, Intuit for the Clippers, BMO soccer stadium for LAFC. In addition, Staples/Crypto and USC's Galen Center were not here for the last Olympics in 1984.

I could probably hook you up with our new Premier. I’m sure he’d gladly hand it over. Tariff free even.

 

[EMSC]

L.A. certainly does.

It had better since it hosts before Brisbane

I'd guess you need a metro area of at least 8-10 million though to have something close-ish to the right infrastructure for summer games without massive construction these days.

For reference I actually worked for the organizing committee for the Atlanta Games way back when. We had to construct a fair numer of venues and the metro was about 3.6M at the time (it has massively grown since then to approx 6.3M).