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Reduce, re-use, recycle: how new Olympic rules make Brisbane’s 2032 bid affordable – The Guardian
It is not accurate to say the Games will be zero-cost, but from multi-sport and temporary venues to fly-in-fly-out athletes, costs should be kept to a minimum
Brisbane is in pole position to win the rights to stage the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2032, after being named as the preferred candidate city last month. The excitement is building, but the hard economic realities of staging a mega-event cant be ignored.
Previous Olympic and Paralympic Games have mixed legacies. There have been stories of venues lying abandoned and host cities left with crippling debts that have taken years to pay off. So will things be different for Brisbane?
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