Toward The Games: Brisbane 2032

Former Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk joins the boys to reveal the surprisingly low-key origins of what became the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games. And yes, it involves a pre-feasibility study!

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The upgraded Gabba won't be able to compete with the $6 billion Los Angeles 2028 Olympics stadium, but that doesn't mean that Brisbane and Queensland won't put on the best Games ever. In this episode, the boys explain how this can be the case.

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Queensland Premier and Olympics Minister Annastacia Palaszczuk joins the boys - and reveals some never-before-heard details about how the bid came about and how the Organising Committee will be established. She also reveals brand new details about the Gabba redevelopment.

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Luttsy and Jonesy take an in-depth look at Australia's medal chances at the Beijing Winter Olympics, but only after almost forgetting the Games are being held because they get distracted by some epic #committeechat.

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International Olympics Committee vice-president John Coates, AC, joins the podcast to reveal how he masterminded the successful Games bid for Brisbane in 2032, who he thinks should be the President of the Organising Committee, and what new sports should be included in Queensland's Olympics. He also talks pole-dancing.

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Best-selling Brisbane author and Olympics tragic Trent Dalton joins the boys to share his love affair with his home city. Trent reveals his idea for which great Queenslander could light the Olympic flame, and he reminisces about growing up in the 1980s in what is almost unbelievably now an Olympic city.

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Dual Olympic gold medallist Susie O'Neill joins the boys for this very special Christmas edition of the podcast to talk about her ideas for how the Brisbane Games will change her home city - and to reminisce about her time as one of the faces of the Sydney Games in 2000, when she could get into any pub in the Olympic city.

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Luttsy joins the podcast from the World Expo in Dubai as the organisers of the Paris Olympic Games reveal they will be copying his idea and have the athletes travel down the city's river on a flotilla of boats at the Opening Ceremony. Plus the establishment of a new Olympic committee brings a new excitement to #committeeechat.

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With now just under 3900 days to go, the Prime Minister's special envoy for the Brisbane Olympics (and Nudgee College 1991 school captain) Ted O'Brien joins the podcast for a special #committeechat discussing who should be in the running for the five independent positions on the Organising Committee. Plus he reveals what really happened in Lausanne - and chats about that time he was gagged by the Prime Minister.

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It's a roll-call of big names as Luttsy and Jonesy take an in-depth look at who has already been appointed to the Brisbane Olympics Organising Committee in their biggest #committeechat yet - plus they talk about how Queensland could become a world leader in sports technology, and exclusively reveal plans for Luttsy World at Boondall.

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