If there’s one thing Bill Hanway has learnt working on four Olympic Games, it’s to expect the unexpected.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.Having been central to the organisation of three Olympic Games — with another on the way — Bill Hanway knows more than most about what it takes to hold the biggest multi-sport event in the world.And he has urged Brisbane Olympic Games naysayers, put off by the Gabba’s $2.7 billion price tag, to see the finished product before passing final judgment.
Hanway said Brisbane organisers would need to be prepared to accommodate sports not included in their planning to this point, or rethink venue allocation.The London 2012 opening ceremony.While London 2012 earned plenty of plaudits for coming in on budget and leaving a significant and profitable urban renewal legacy, Hanway said a lot of that was just simple luck.
“It made us all look like geniuses, which is why you’ll find hundreds and hundreds of consultants claiming to have worked on the [London] Games.”“You can’t control the economic, global financial cycles, so you have to fit the Games into that,” he said. “If you think about London, all the [tender] bids for the Games went out in around 2008, just at the crash of the financial market, so we ended up getting great prices and the best construction teams.
“Everything was done on time, on budget, and then anything that was sold on the commercial market [after the Games] was after the economy took off.“So the whole legacy plan was very, very successful from that side of it. It made us all look like geniuses, which is why you’ll find hundreds and hundreds of consultants claiming to have worked on those Games.”
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