When Brisbane hosts the Olympics in 2032, will people still be paying attention?
The 2000 Olympics captivated Australia but since then, public interest in the Games appears to have waned. The Paris Games will be held in July and Brisbane will host in 2032. But will Australians even be interested by then? Host of the Sports Ambassador Podcast and professorial fellow at the University of Canberra, Tracey Holmes, says the 2000 games was a high point for Australia. "We had great sport, great athletes, all the conditions were perfect.
And if you just lined all of those up and spent one second looking at each of them, you'd be looking at those until the Olympic Games of 2040." Rowe says there's a concerted effort to get younger people interested in the games, as the Olympic audience is ageing. "There's this idea of bringing in new sports- breakdancing is on in Paris.
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