Olympic powerbroker John Coates has been joined as a vice president of the Brisbane organising committee by AOC president Ian Chesterman under new Queensland law.
Olympic powerbroker John Coates and the Australian Olympic Committee have quietly beefed up their influence on Brisbane 2032 just months after the Queensland government took their advice and rejected the building of a $3.4 billion stadium as the Games centrepiece.
Coates has previously held the title courtesy of his position on the IOC, but as he retires from that post, legislation has been rewritten for him to retain it thanks to his status as honorary life president of the AOC. and the opening and closing ceremonies at Suncorp Stadium, rather than pay for a new inner-city stadium recommended by a government-commissioned review.Contacted in Paris, the veteran administrator said the amended Brisbane 2032 laws would effectively give the AOC and IOC individual representation as vice presidents of the organising committee, as had been the case before the Sydney Olympics in 2000 when Coates and Kevan Gosper held such posts with the Sydney Organising Committee, or SOCOG.
An artist’s image of the proposed new Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre as it would be developed for the Brisbane Olympics.Coates said that as a seven-time Australian team chef de mission, at six winter and one summer Games, “Ian actually knows more about this than any of us”. The AOC constitution was changed in 2020 to create the title of honorary life president for a member who had served at least 13 years as president and “rendered outstanding service to the Olympic movement and sport”. Coates was appointed to the role two years ago, weeks before standing aside as president. It will become effective from next year.
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