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2032 Olympics: Brisbane Chosen As a Preferred Candidate to Host Games
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1:18Now PlayingBrisbane has been chosen as a preferred candidate to host the 2032 Olympics by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Australia's Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is hopeful it will help the state's economy recover after the Covid-19 pandemic.
"It puts Queensland in the box seat and I know that every level of government is absolutely united in working together to make this happen," Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk told reporters in Brisbane.
The decision by the IOC's executive board puts Brisbane on a fast-track to victory 11 years ahead of the games and before several expected rival candidates have publicly developed their plans.
Officials in Brisbane and the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) will now begin "targeted dialogue" with an IOC panel overseeing a reformed bidding process.
The IOC's new bidding process, developed in part by Australia's top Olympic official, seeks to find a winning host more efficiently and avoid turning other campaigns into expensive losers.
Australian Olympic Committee President John Coates said it was a "very mature decision by the IOC."
"You know, to take a decision when you've still got a few other cities there and say 'well, we're going to go into targeted dialogue with one preferred city' was a big call by them," Coates said.
The 2032 race was expected to include bids from Doha, Qatar -- which is hosting the 2030 Asian Games -- and Budapest, Hungary.
Neither has launched a formal bid yet.
If Brisbane is eventually approved by the full IOC membership, potentially next year, it would cap the second straight unconventional bidding process for the Summer Games.
Paris and Los Angeles were awarded the 2024 and 2028 editions, respectively, at the same time when in 2017 the IOC changed its rules mid-contest to allow a double award.
Budapest's late withdrawal from the 2024 contest paved the way for Los Angeles being offered the 2028 edition unopposed.
The process was changed again for the 2032 Olympics to speed up the selection.
The IOC wanted to move away from two-year bidding campaigns that ended with a host being picked seven years before the games in a contested vote.
These were typically expensive for cities, often ended with rejection of the Olympic brand by voters in local referendums, and invited controversy including allegations of vote-buying.
The government-backed Queensland bid was made more likely after hosting the Commonwealth Games — a two-week multi-sport event for former British Empire countries — at Gold Coast in 2018.
The 2000 Sydney Olympics was also a popular recent success for the Summer Games.
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