Matt Carroll, chief executive of the Australian Olympic Committee, warned that final decisions need to be made on the main venues for the 2032 Brisbane Olympics by the end of June.
Brisbane won the Olympics in 2021, but the political platoon, especially at major stadiums and track and field venues, means no final plan has been made.
After David Crisafulli was elected as Queensland state prime minister in November last year, he announced that a seven-member board of directors would conduct a second review of venue options and report in early March.
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“I think it’s time to complete more comments and accurately determine … the government wants to fund this,” Carroll said on Friday in the Senate of the Canberra Federal Parliament.
“I think (this needs to happen in the first half of this year) for two reasons.
“First, the sports plan will be enriched from 2026 the following year, which is obviously very important, and it is obviously important to start the construction process or whatever work needs to be done, which will take a little time.”
Carroll said Brisbane’s unprecedented 11 years of being awarded the competition proved to be a double-edged sword at the opening ceremony, but any further delays could lead to the challenge of completing the project in a large amount of time.
“It is important to keep working in the decisions around the site in the decisions of whatever is going to be established,” he said.
“At the moment, Australia’s construction industry has extended so being able to start doing all these places, you need to move quickly no matter where they are, but everyone knows that.”
Crisafulli’s former Steven Miles rejects a $2.7 billion ($1.7 billion) remodel for the Gabba cricket stadium in Brisbane, as well as Victoria Park in the inner city new advice for the $3.4 billion Olympic Games.
His solution was to use Lang Park Rugby Stadium to host the opening and closing ceremonies, where track and field took place in the QSAC aging venue in the southern suburbs of the city, and was described as “embarrassing” by a group of local Olympic champions.
Crisafulli’s review board no longer submits comments and has received a proposal for swimming in Australia, a new aquatic centre in Victoria Park, another man built a 60,000-seat wooden stadium next to GABBA.
Environmental activists and some local residents have organized against any developments in Victoria Park, and Greens Senator Penny Allman-Payne has been described as Brisbane’s “lung”.
Carroll said the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will need to approve any changes to the site plan, which must also be consistent with Brisbane’s bid for environmental impact and sustainability.
