Greg Norman to join organisers for Brisbane 2032 Olympics
News Corp. reported Thursday that Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had picked Norman to replace a retiring politician on the 24-person organizing board for the 2032 Olympics.
The Games will be held in Norman’s home state of Queensland, Australia.
“As a proud Queenslander, it is an honor and privilege to help shape the Brisbane Games,” Norman told Brisbane’s Courier-Mail newspaper.
As a youth, Norman worked at Royal Queensland Golf Club, the riverside course that will host the Olympic golf tournament in 2032.
Sports Minister Anika Wells said Norman “is synonymous with Australian sporting success on the world stage and I look forward to drawing on his 40 years of global sporting experience and business acumen.”
“Norman learned to play golf in the northern suburbs of Brisbane and as a proud Queenslander understands our state’s sporting pride and is a passionate supporter of the Olympic and Paralympic movements,” Wells told the newspaper.
The IOC awarded the 2032 Games to Australia’s third-largest city in 2021 ahead of the Tokyo Olympics, giving a long lead time to prepare under the so-called new normal guidelines.
Andrew Liveris, president of the 2032 organizing committee, has said he’s envisioned an Olympics more like Barcelona in 1992 than London, Tokyo, Paris, or Los Angeles, given the scale of the cities involved.
