Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate says his city could host the Games in 2026 for $1 billion with “no capital expenditure required”.
Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate has picked a fight with Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews, saying cancelling theMr Tate remains adamant his city could host the Games in 2026 for $1 billion with “no capital expenditure required”, and he said he would be happy to share with other host cities in Australia.
“China wants a strong presence in Oceania – they will seize this opportunity to expand the Asian Games,” he said. Commonwealth Games Australia president Ben Houston on Monday told a federal inquiry probing the Games cancellation that neither his organisation nor the Commonwealth Games Federation requested a confidentiality clause to be included in“Neither did we,” Mr Andrews said on Tuesday. “It’s a standard form put forward by the mediators before the mediation had even started.”
Committee for Ballarat chief executive Michael Poulton said costings for the proposed 2026 Games did not make sense to him, considering his experience as chef de mission at the World University Games.“I understood that it was the most expensive Commonwealth Games, but we also understood that the four regional hubs provided some challenges that previously those events had not seen in the past.”
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