How the proposed Brisbane 2032 Olympic stadiums stack up against previous venues

The attractions of the masterpiece of any Olympic game are the places where the feats of sports brilliance take place.

It is these sands that provide the stages, whose names echoed throughout history as easily as the athletes that adorned them.

Often, but not exclusively, the reserve of the emblematic athletics competition of the games, the “main” stadium in a game can be a legada definition in terms of architecture and scope.

The Gabba will no longer join the exultated list of places to have been considered the main stadium of the Olympic Games.

On the other hand, a new place of 63,000 capacity for Victoria Park, the first new Olympic Stadium of New Construction from London 2012 (although that is slightly false, since Tokyo 2020 stadium involved the reconstruction of the entire existing stadium) will be built.

Much about the new stadium is still unknown, including its cost (the 100 -day review of $ 3,785 billion) and the design.

But from what we do, how will they be compared to some of its predecessors?

The bigger, the better? Maybe not

With a proposed capacity of 63,000, the Victoria Park stadium would become the third largest stadium in the country behind the two existing Olympic stadiums in Australia, the MCG (100,024) and the Sydney Olympic stadium (82,000).

During the 2000 Games, Sydney’s Olympic stadium could contain 110,000 (although 114,714 saw the closing ceremony), which makes it the largest Olympic stadium in history.

The capacity of the MCG during the 1956 Olympic Games was 103,000, which made it the third largest Olympic stage behind Sydney and the magnificent Neoclassical Olympiadium of Berlin (110,000).

In comparison only with those giants, the proposed Victoria Park stadium seems relatively small.

And there is a case for that: its relatively modest size would make Victoria Park the smallest main stadium for an Olympic Games from the 1926 Amsterdam Stadium, which contained only 31,600.

But in reality, the capacity is in line with what many Olympic stages tend to launch.

In fact, Brisbane does not need a larger stadium than this and to exploit the capacity would risk converting the sand into the most paving white elephants.

Brisbane is, after all, the smallest city of the population organized by an Olympic Summer Games from Helsinki in 1952.

The proposed capacity of 63,000 was not a wild stab in the dark.

The 100 -day report of the Independent Infrastructure and Coordination Authority of the Games (Giica) pointed out that Queensland had the highest provision of the capacity of the major sports stadium of the five most populated states compared to the population, with 60 people per seat.

Victoria, Nueva Wales del Sur, Australia del Sur and Australia Western have an average of 36 people per seat.

Being a little smaller than the other Olympic stadiums of the nations can make the Victoria Park stadium an anomaly nationwide, but in fact it is very well agreed with what we would expect.

What about the pool?

However, the new aquatic center proposed on the current centenary pool site will be very large.

With a proposed games of 25,000, which will be reduced to a permanent capacity of 8,800, the place would be the third largest to organize swimming in a game.

And that would be appropriate, in a country where swimmers do not praise like no other, with the possible exception of the United States.

In Paris, the pool was the second largest place for capacity with 15,220 seats that, according to their commitment to reuse existing stadiums, were housed inside the Défense Paris sand the Défense readjusted.

After the games, it returned to its normal use as land for the top 14 rugby union club, Racing 92.

The angels will also go big with their place of swimming, but with an even greater reach, the use of the Sofi stadium, the native land of the two NFL teams of the, the chargers and the Rams, to create the largest place only of pool in the Olympic history with 38,000.

By the way, it is not the largest in history: the 100 -meter long group for the 1908 Games stood in the White City stadium box of 93,000 capacity in London.

The new National Aquatic Center will be a place of declaration for the future of Swimming of Australia: the executive director of Swimming of Australia, Rob Woodhouse, described it “the most significant investment in aquatic sports in Australia” which has the potential to establish sport “for continuous success over the next 50 years.”

But the statement could also be in its design.

Beijing’s water cube is one of the most amazing and distinctive sports architecture pieces in the world.

The London Aquatic Center and its wavy roof is the design vision of Zaha Hadid and remains a focal point for the entire Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park.

Who ends up designing the finished product, have a great task in their hands.

A golden canvas

It is possible that the Olympic Games tend to build new stadiums at a great cost as a pair for the course, but the trend in general is to use existing places.

Last year’s games in Paris, for example, they had as characteristic a land that is actually older than the reurbanization of the Lang Park in Brisbane, the France Stade built in 1998.

The 2021 Games took place in the same place as the 1964 Olympic Games, but the Japan National Stadium in Tokyo was completely rebuilt at the site of the former National Stadium at a cost of 157 billion yen ($ 1.6 billion).

Rio Games also used an existing remodeled stadium, the historic Maracanã for their opening and closing ceremonies, while athletics was held at the smallest is Nilton Santos, which was also an existing stadium.

The Los Angeles Games will make history using the same stadium, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, for the third time. It was also the main stadium in 1932 and 1984.

However, London (2012) and Beijing (2008) built new stadiums such as their flagship pieces, like Sydney (2000) and Atlanta (1996).

Before that, 10 of the 12 previous games, which extend from Barcelona 1992 to London 1948, all used pre -existing places.

The only exceptions were the games in Munich and Montreal in the 1970s, which were architectural wonders, although with contrasting legacies.

Montreal took 30 years to pay his revolutionary stadium, which earned him the nickname of the greats and cementing Montreal as the child of the excess poster and the frivolity of the Olympic movement: his total overload was estimated at more than 700 percent of his budget.

Those games were full of problems for the organizers.

Many African nations boycotted the games after the IOC refused to ban New Zealand after the All Black tour of South Africa of that year continued to challenge the prohibition of apartheid, while Canada became the first and only nation in history in not winning a single gold medal in its own Olympic Games, winning only 11 in general.

Given the impressive Australian record in the pool and in other parts of the Olympic Games, one believes that we would be safe when assuming that the lack of success of the gold medals will not be a problem for Australia in Brisbane, certainly in the pool.