‘Stop making the Olympics a political football’: 2032 Brisbane Olympic chief demands

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Brisbane Olympic Chief Andrew Liveris told the International Olympic Committee that Brisbane would deliver in 2032 and that it isn’t a “hillbilly town”.

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00:00I really asked to stop making the Olympics a political football, please.

00:17So this is a gift.

00:18This is a great gift to the earlier question about sentiment.

00:23Come on.

00:25It may look like a coffee table book, but it's literally the speech I'm giving.

00:30Let's get the enthusiasm for what we've been given right, and then whatever ends up happening

00:35on venues, we will deliver back to the delivery point.

00:39I am confident we will deliver.

00:41We're a nation that can deliver this very well, and Brisbane is not a hillbilly town.

00:48It's not that strange place up north.

00:51I think we've just got to let the good stuff come out, and let it come out for good reasons.

00:57And here's the thing, as feeds the earlier question, once you've let the good stuff out

01:02and you say I'm going to deliver this, you deliver that.

01:06Don't whiplash the population.

01:08Don't change things for the sake of expediency in the moment.

01:12This is a long-term project, right, 10 years, now eight.

01:16I think making this an overlay of positive and goodwill, I think that's in our future.

01:22I'm a firm believer that they're very entitled as political representatives to say what they

01:26want to say to their constituencies, but for Brisbane 32, okay, we have a signed document

01:31to the ISC and the IPC, and we have to deliver against that.

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