Fed: Premier Bligh says Qld could host Olympics

AAP General News (Australia)
08-05-2008
Fed: Premier Bligh says Qld could host Olympics

BRISBANE, Aug 5 AAP - Premier Anna Bligh says it's Queensland's turn to host the Olympics
if Australia submits a bid to hold the games for a third time.

Australian Olympic Committee chief John Coates has told The Australian newspaper Brisbane
would be the most likely choice for a candidate city when Australia again applies to host
the Games.

Ms Bligh told reporters in Brisbane she would speak with Mr Coates when he returned from Beijing.

She said it was "Queensland's turn" to host the Games, but it was too early to say
what financial commitment the state government was prepared to make.

"I think in 15 to 20 years time it's something that Brisbane could reasonably aspire
to," she said.

Australia previously hosted the Olympics in Melbourne in 1956 and Sydney in 2000.

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