Brisbane will host the 2032 Olympic Games. The metropolis in the Australian state of Queensland received the bid for the summer games in eleven years from the 138th session of the International Olympic Committee in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Brisbane had been declared a "preferred applicant" by the IOC in a new award process and was therefore the only candidate for the XXXV games.
Olympics to choose from.
For Australia it will be the third summer games after 1956 in Melbourne and 2000 in Sydney.
The early pre-selection of Brisbane had caused surprise and criticism from other interested parties. The Rhine-Ruhr region also endeavored with an Olympic project for the 2032 Games. The private initiative was supported by the state government and the municipalities. The German Olympic Sports Confederation had not yet submitted a formal application to the IOC because the umbrella organization still saw many questions unanswered and assumed that the award decision would be much later.
IOC President Thomas Bach had described the Brisbane application as "irresistible".
The fact that the Australian IOC Vice President John Coates was in charge of developing the new award procedure leaves at least an aftertaste - and the first winner is now his home country, of all places.
The IOC denied a conflict of interest.
Coates did not vote on any decision.
The organizers calculated the costs for the games in Brisbane to be almost three billion euros.
The Australian state bears half of this.
Brisbane advertises that only a small portion of the Olympic arenas need to be rebuilt.
According to surveys, there is broad support for the Olympic plans in the region.
After the games in Tokyo, which are due to open on Friday, Paris 2024 and Los Angeles 2028 are the next summer hosts. The 2022 Winter Games will take place in Beijing, with Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo hosting the event in 2026.