Now that Brisbane’s been selected as the host city for the 2032 Olympic Games, it’s time to get thinking about the demonstration sports we should use to showcase our nation’s strengths. We’ve got some pearlers to start us off…
The Olympic Games thrives on tradition. One of the most enduring is demonstration sport, a golden opportunity for the host nation to slip in a few new homegrown shoe-in events.
With the Brisbane Olympics in the bag, Crikey satirist Tom Red has a few suggestions based on our current strengths.
Figure skating
Not to be confused with the Winter Olympics event, this contest pits the world’s best economic dissemblers against each other. Using dodgy modelling, irrelevant comparisons and wildly optimistic projections, opponents attempt to prove that this Olympics, finally, will be the one that breaks even.
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