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Time Out
23-07-2025
- Sport
- Time Out
Your ultimate guide to the Brisbane Olympics 2032: dates, sports, venues and more
It feels like just yesterday we were cheering on the green and gold at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games – but the countdown is already on for our next big moment. In 2032, Australia will host its third-ever Summer Olympics, and this time it's headed for the Sunshine State. Since winning the bid on June 10, 2021, preparations have ramped up across Queensland – including the construction of a multi-million-dollar rail link from the Sunshine Coast, major upgrades to the Bruce Highway and the development of 30 new hotels. A solid slice of the $7.1 billion budget is also being invested in three brand-new stadiums – including a 63,000-seater in Victoria Park – alongside major upgrades to existing venues. Unlike previous Olympics, the Brisbane Games will stretch well beyond one city, with events set to unfold in Brisbane, the Gold Coast, the Sunshine Coast, and regional centres like Cairns and Townsville. More than 16,000 athletes and officials are expected to take part in 50 sports across 11 cities, with potential new additions to the program including cricket, lacrosse, netball and surfing. Here's everything we know so far about the Brisbane Olympic Games 2032. When is the Brisbane Olympics? The Brisbane Olympics will run across four weeks (29 days) from Friday, July 23 to Sunday, August 8. The Paralympics will follow shortly after, from August 24 to September 5. Where in Brisbane will the Olympics be held? The Brisbane Olympics will be hosted across eleven regions in three states, with the majority of events held in Brisbane. Co-host cities include the Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Scenic Rim, Redland Bay, Moreton Bay, Ipswich, Cairns and Townsville, with Australia's two previous host cities, Sydney and Melbourne, set to host the football preliminaries and early knockout matches. Proposed venues include: Brisbane Brisbane Olympic Stadium – Opening and Closing Ceremonies, athletics Brisbane Showgrounds – TBA National Aquatic Centre – swimming, diving, water polo, artistic swimming Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre – badminton, fencing, table tennis, taekwondo South Bank Piazza – 3x3 basketball Lang Park – football (finals), rugby sevens Sleeman Centre – gymnastics, cycling Brisbane International Shooting Centre – shooting Royal Queensland Golf Club – golf Springfield Central Stadium – modern pentathlon Brisbane Entertainment Centre – basketball (finals) Moreton Bay Indoor Sports Centre – boxing Redland Whitewater Centre – canoe (slalom) Queensland Tennis Centre – tennis The Gabba – cricket (TBA) Gold Coast Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre – volleyball, weightlifting Broadbeach Park Stadium – beach volleyball Southport Broadwater Parklands – triathlon, marathon swimming Gold Coast Hockey Centre – field hockey Gold Coast Arena – basketball (preliminaries) Coomera Indoor Sports Centre – volleyball Robina Stadium – football (preliminaries) Sunshine Coast Sunshine Coast Stadium – football (preliminaries) Alexandra Headland – cycling (road), marathon, race walking, sailing (kiteboarding) Sunshine Coast Mountain Bike Centre – mountain biking Regional Logan Indoor Sports Centre – TBA Maryborough (TBA) – archery Toowoomba Showgrounds – equestrian North Queensland Stadium, Townsville – football (preliminaries) Whitsunday Islands (TBA) – sailing Barlow Park, Cairns – football (preliminaries) Cairns Convention Centre – basketball (preliminaries) Fitzroy River, Rockhampton – canoe (sprint), rowing Harrup Park, Mackay – cricket (TBA) Where are the Brisbane Olympic Villages? There will be four main athlete villages in: Brisbane Showgrounds, Bowen Hills, Brisbane Northshore Hamilton, Brisbane Robina, Gold Coast Kooralbyn, Sunshine Coast What sports is Brisbane adding to the Olympics? Brisbane can propose up to five new sports to join the 28 mandatory Summer Olympic disciplines. These core sports include athletics, aquatics (swimming, diving, water polo, artistic swimming, and marathon swimming), badminton, basketball, boxing, canoeing, cycling, equestrian, fencing, gymnastics, judo, modern pentathlon, rowing, sailing, shooting, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, triathlon, volleyball, weightlifting and wrestling. The final list of additions for the 2032 Brisbane Olympics will be confirmed in 2026, but early favourites for inclusion include: Baseball/softball Cricket Lacrosse Netball Sport climbing Surfing Skateboarding Has Brisbane ever hosted the Olympics? This will mark Australia's third time hosting the Summer Olympics, following Melbourne in 1956 and Sydney in 2000. Brisbane will host for the first time, having previously lost the 1992 bid to Barcelona. When is the Brisbane Paralympics? The Brisbane Paralympics will happen five days after the Olympic Games Closing Ceremony, running from Tuesday, August 24 to Sunday, September 5. How to volunteer for the Brisbane Olympics? Rest assured, there will be plenty of volunteer opportunities for the Brisbane Olympics. However, the official volunteer program and sign-ups will only be available after the LA 2028 Olympic Games.
The Guardian
30-03-2025
- Sport
- The Guardian
How the architect who made modern Brisbane shaped the city's 2032 Olympics stadium plans
As plans for the 2032 Olympic Games were thrown into limbo last year, architect Michael Rayner began to bend the ear of local politicians and Olympics officials about his idea for Victoria Park. Rayner – a prolific designer who has been described as one of the makers of modern Brisbane – proposed Victoria Park as an Olympics precinct in a 2019 lecture, years before the city's bid for the 2032 games was even viewed as a frontrunner. The venues plan announced last week – including the controversial decision to locate swimming and athletics venues in the 64ha heritage-listed public parkland – closely resembles Rayner's 2019 vision. Sign up for Guardian Australia's breaking news email He says he had put the idea – which was ultimately recommended – up to the 2024 venues review led by the former mayor Graham Quirk. Over the past year, amid uncertainty about Olympics plans either side of a state election, Rayner says he met Olympics organising committee chief Andrew Liveris and other directors, and Brisbane mayor Adrian Schrinner to promote his plan to use Victoria Park as main precinct. 'Funnily enough some things can happen at seemingly the last minutes, but I started six years ago,' Rayner says. 'Things can take time for people to process what you're proposing. I'm glad I had shown it to someone of that importance during the whole thing.' Perhaps more than anyone else, Rayner has contributed to the building of modern Brisbane. He has designed, or been involved in the design of skyscrapers (111 Eagle Street), bridges (Kurilpa), cultural venues (the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre), ferry terminals and master plans for key precincts (the city centre and Newstead-Teneriffe). He says the idea for locating Olympics venues at Victoria Park emerged from the city leaders' plans to transform the area – the city's largest inner-city parkland, then used as a golf course – into something resembling New York's Central Park or London's Hyde Park. Rayner says the problem with that vision is that Victoria Park was not 'a real central park' because it is on the fringe of the inner city, and under-used. The development of a 'new metropolis' at Bowen Hills, over the Mayne rail yards, would mean Victoria Park would become 'a city defining opportunity' that linked the old CBD to the new high-density area. The Olympics venue plans announced by the state government appear to align with that idea, and include a high-density athletes village at the RNA showgrounds at Bowen Hills. 'Knowing [Schrinner] was trying to create this revitalised public park, I wanted to show him how I thought the park could be retained while also putting in these facilities,' Rayner says. 'The bigger point here about not locating things in a happenstance way. The sum is greater than the parts and you can see what else could happen if you did create an Olympic park there.' Sign up to Breaking News Australia Get the most important news as it breaks after newsletter promotion Rayner says he presented a proposal to the 100-day venues review that included options for a stadium, aquatic centre and indoor arena all within a single Victoria Park precinct. He says the stadium could be constructed in a way that took up 12% of the total parkland; with an aquatic centre, it would require about 20% of the 64ha. Those figures are challenged by supporters of retaining the park, who say the stadium would probably require more surrounding land. They say the shape and topography of the site would make it difficult to locate a stadium in a way that doesn't split any remaining green space into fragments. Rayner says building a stadium would 'energise the park'. 'If you think about the park being rarely used, it would breathe life into the park. That's why I didn't necessarily agree with people wanting to keep every blade of grass as it is.' 'I wanted to show how this piece fitted into a bigger jigsaw of the whole city centre – looking at what Victoria Park could mean to Bris in 20 or 30 or 40 years' time.' Rayner's 2019 plan proposed linking the city botanic gardens, Roma Street parkland and Victoria Park as a green corridor, further activating the river, and making the CBD more pedestrian-friendly. He says the city needed new attractions before the Olympics, including a new museum. 'We now know where all the venues are but the question now becomes: what are we now doing for legacy for Brisbane? What else?'
