This week marked my final one at insidethegames, as I hang up the green and pink tie* after close to seven-and-a-half years here.

 Having been effectively babysat when Durban submitted its bid proposal to the Commonwealth Games

The second featuring podium protests at the Pan American Games and watching how our initial reporting

final competitive race for 2026, and the move to the targeted and somewhat opaque process for 2030 and 2032

and Paralympic Games, as well as the human rights concerns with the latter, have meant there has never

Or their purchase of a questionably-named cheese, which had us in hysterics at the same Games.

Anthony Albanese will be the next Prime Minister of Australia, with his Labor Party on course to have the most seats in the House of Representatives.

Albanese set to lead the Federal Government for the next three years as preparations for the Brisbane 2032

Olympic and Paralympic Games continue.Parliaments in Australia cannot sit for more than three years,

time.In the lead-up to the vote, Morrison had sought to downplay Queensland’s role in securing the 2032

Olympic and Paralympic Games ©IOCIt was Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk - a Labor politician

- who flew to Tokyo last July for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session which saw Brisbane

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) declared here that it hopes to award hosting rights for the

2030 Winter Olympic Games at next year's 140th IOC Session in Mumbai.

Winter Games."

2020+5 and the new approach for electing future hosts have led to strong interest in hosting future Olympic

and Winter Olympic Games," De Kepper said."

take a decision about a targeted dialogue in December during its meeting".Christoph Dubi, the IOC's Olympic

this stage in December".Brisbane for 2032 Summer edition became the first city to be awarded hosting

The Fiji Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee (FASANOC) has held Oceania National Olympic

progressing.Lorraine Mar, the chief executive of FASANOC, remarked that the majority of the National Olympic

interest in the RAT sessions.Marr also suggested that the country has a chance of claiming medals at the 2032

Brisbane Olympic Games but preparations must begin now."

and Commonwealth Games," Mar commented."

Games and to all Games in the future."

Melbourne has been announced as the replacement host of the World Swimming Championships (25 metres) following the event being removed from Kazan.

events.The aquatics venue was opened in 2006, with the facility constructed for the 2006 Commonwealth Games

latest major event to be awarded to Australia since the nation was confirmed as the host of the Brisbane 2032

Olympic and Paralympic Games.Peru's capital Lima was named as host of the FINA World Junior Swimming

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has played down Queensland’s role in securing the 2032 Olympics

Morrison has argued that the Queensland Government was "not prepared to stump up" enough to ensure the Games

Olympic Committee Session in Japanese capital Tokyo last year.North and South Korea, Qatar, Germany,

Hungary, India and Indonesia were among the nations that expressed an interest in staging the 2032 Games

only for the IOC to rule in favour of the Brisbane bid.It was the first time the Olympic hosting rights

Games."

technical apparel partner for the country's ski, freeski, and snowboard athletes at the Milan Cortina 2026 Olympic

Games.

provide US athletes with significant technical advantages as they focus on next season, the 2026 Winter Olympic

Games and beyond."

additional support for all US domestic and International Ski Federation World Cup events up until the 2032

for rugby as a sport and for Australia as a great destination for major world events" by Australian Olympic

Ian Chesterman was elected Australian Olympic Committee President last month ©Getty ImagesAustralia have

- an event it has never hosted.Australia's women did win the gold medal when rugby sevens made its Olympic

tournaments add to Australia's run of staging major sporting events in the decade leading up to the Brisbane 2032

Olympic and Paralympic Games.September's Women's Basketball World Cup and World Road Cycling Championships

in 2023 and solo hosting the Netball World Cup in 2027.Victoria is additionally now the Commonwealth Games

Paralympics, was such a glorious time in Britain that it is no wonder that, as the 10th anniversary of those Games

to become the "sporting capital of the world," and that he wants the biggest showpiece of all - the Olympic

Games - to return.He has set his sights on 2036, the next available Olympics, after Paris in 2024 and

Los Angeles in 2028 will have joined London as hosting the Games three times.

They are due to be followed by Brisbane in 2032 and cities and countries are already trying to position

themselves to be next.Khan had promised another Olympic bid in his election manifesto last year and

World Rugby has confirmed the next five hosts for the Rugby World Cup, with Australia and the United States set to stage back-to-back editions of the men's and women's events.

tournaments are the latest major events awarded to Australia with the country due to host the Commonwealth Games

in Victoria in 2026 and the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Brisbane in 2032.They are also scheduled

women’s final having claimed third in 2010.Ian Chesterman, recently elected President of the Australian Olympic

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has claimed the city is capable of staging the "greenest Olympics ever" as he wages a campaign to make London "the sporting capital of the world".

Speaking in New York City, where a deal was agreed for London to stage Major League Baseball (MLB) Games

London most recently staged the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012, with multiple venues built specifically

the apartments which made up the Athletes' Village.The IOC already has hosts for the 2024, 2028 and 2032

year told insidethegames the organisation would be "supportive of any plans to bring the Games

These games will be a fantastic opportunity to once again showcase the London Stadium as a multi-use

The Olympiastadion in Berlin is set to stage the deciding match at football's 2024 European Championship, following a decision taken at today's UEFA Executive Committee meeting in Vienna.

The 74,745-capacity stadium in Germany's capital was purpose-built for the Berlin 1936 Olympic Games,

for the invasion of Ukraine, which Moscow claims is a "special military operation".The International Olympic

2022-2023 men's UEFA Nations League.UEFA also ruled Russia out of hosting the men's Euro 2028 or Euro 2032

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach claimed the Brisbane 2032 Olympics and Paralympics

will be a Games for the whole Pacific region on a visit to the host city.

These Olympic Games will not only be Games in Australia and for Australia, these will be Games for the

We have met young athletes and sports officials and on everybody’s mind are the Brisbane 2032 Olympic

Games."

We can look forward to this as a great Olympic festival and as a great engagement of the Olympic Games

was attending an AOC Olympics Unleashed event in Brisbane ©Getty ImagesKirsty Coventry, the Brisbane 2032

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach congratulated Oceania National Olympic Committees

having a real home and being supported by your secretary general Ricardo Blas building this home for the Olympic

It reminds me a bit of when three years ago when we were able to open our Olympic House in Lausanne."

This will be the home of everyone in the Oceania National Olympic Committees, where everyone can feel

You will be inspired by an outlook 10 years from now, when the Brisbane 2032 Olympic Games take place

The Olympic spirit is alive in Oceania all the time."

International Olympic Committee (IOC) vice-president Juan Antonio Samaranch has encouraged Hungary to

target hosting the Olympic Games.

Now there is only one thing left: to target the Olympic Games."

Games ©Getty Images"As for the future of the Olympics - it is very difficult to find a balance between

Last year Hungary explored the possibility of bidding to host the 2032 Summer Olympics, which have now

been awarded to Brisbane in Australia.A Budapest 2032 Committee was formed, which looked into the feasibility

of staging the event.The 2032 Olympics in Brisbane where the first awarded under a new process in which