International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach has praised Southeast Quee...
MELBOURNE - International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach has praised Southeast Queensland’s early planning for a potential bid for the 2032 Summer Games after meeting with the mayor of Brisbane on Monday.
“I must say that we have been impressed to see how detailed the feasibility studies are already at this early stage and how well founded these studies are,” Bach told reporters in Brisbane. The IOC has suggested North and South Korea, who are still technically at war, could stage a joint bid in 2032. Bach said the IOC would at least match its 2028 funding contribution of $1.8 billion to the winner of the 2032 Games, which was more than the feasibility study had accounted for.“I think this figure was new to the mayors and I could see them starting calculating in their heads and what this means for their feasibility study and for their budget.”“The next step is getting the state and federal governments involved, we have been working closely with them already,” he said.
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