International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach says the organisation would have been “pretty nervous” about Brisbane’s preparations for the 2032 Games had the city been given hosting rights under the previous selection process.
Speaking from the IOC’s Switzerland headquarters on Friday night , Bach suggested Brisbane’s 11-year runway to hosting the Games had saved the city’s blushes.“Then, three years in means four years before the Games, so then we would be pretty nervous.”
“There are discussions, these discussions are turning around our Olympic agenda there and the conditions are very clear. Bach said the IOC was mindful of security concerns, but also confident geopolitical fissures – namely the Gaza conflict – would not manifest among competitors at Paris 2024.
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