It sounds crazy – hosting Olympic rowing and canoeing on a river home to crocodiles. Yet that’s what is likely to happen in Brisbane in 2032.
- Honorary Professor, School of Kinesiology, Western University, London, Canada; Adjunct Fellow, Olympic Scholar and Co-Director of the Olympic and Paralympic Research Centre, Institute for Health and Sport, Victoria University
The 2026 winter games are vastly different to when Italy hosted them in 1956, especially when it comes to costs, events and climate challenges.
The 2032 Brisbane Olympic and Paralympic Games plan has been released, and major opportunities and hurdles are on the horizon.
New International Olympic Committee president Kirsty Coventry has ten key areas to consider in taking the reins.
As world sports fans zero in on Paris ahead of the Olympics, what should Brisbane’s games organisers look to learn ahead of the 2032 event?
A new Olympic funding strategy aims to boost the finances of smaller Australian sports like table tennis – but will it actually work?
All the attention is on the Paris summer games starting in July, but there’s plenty else to get excited about this year.
We now know sports that will make their Olympic Games debut in 2028. Here’s what that tells us about what might get the nod for Brisbane 2032.
There is hope for a return to a more traditional and enjoyable Olympic Games with the upcoming 2024 Paris Games.
Australia has followed the United States in announcing it will send athletes, but no officials, to the winter games in February 2022 - a move unlikely to make much political difference.
Beijing 2022 is on track to be the most politically-charged games ever.
No sightseeing, cheering, singing or (at least officially) sex. This is what an Olympic Games during a pandemic could look like.
New sports are being added to the Olympics all the time in an effort to remain relevant to younger audiences, while others (sorry baseball) are left out.
As the Sochi Winter Games have now come to a close, it is possible to reflect on the unprecedented addition of 12 new winter sports events to the program. These new events – all of which have been added…
You may have seen overnight snowboarder Torah Bright picked up silver in the women’s halfpipe at the Winter Olympics in Sochi. It was Australia’s first medal at these Games and brings our all-time Winter…
It’s no secret that Australia fares much better in Summer Games than the Winter Games: Aussie athletes have won 485 medals in Summer Olympics, while the winter counterpart has yielded a much more modest…
It’s only been a week since the London Olympics drew to a close and already athletes are starting to focus on Rio 2016. Of course, for the International Olympic Committee (IOC), it’s not four years until…
One of the purposes of my trip to the London Games was to investigate the concept of Olympic Houses – something most Australians would not know about. Basically these are temporary Embassies of Sport that…
Keeping in line with my wish to cover the other side of the Olympics beyond the pure performance side and the medal count I have been thinking about the vast majority of the more than 200 nations at the…
Hard to believe but it is only 18 months to the next Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. It therefore is not uncommon for the next host to start a massive promotional campaign and that is exactly what the…
There are numerous satellite events at the Games that can keep you as busy as going to the actual sporting competitions. Saturday night it was Austrade’s Australia Unlimited Event taking place at the impressive…
Our International Convention on Science, Education and Medicine in Sport in Glasgow ended on a high note with a great closing keynote address by US medico Robert Sallis, former President of the prestigious…
Aussie academics in all fields are used to travelling around the globe to attend conferences, network, sight-see and participate in social and educational pursuits. Before every Olympic Summer Games it…
This will be my seventh Olympics. There is huge amount of activity associated with the Olympic Games that is often not well known as it is peripheral to the Games but important to various interest groups…
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