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SEAN JACOBS<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the hefty price tag of hosting an Olympic and Paralympic Games, and the fear of creating \u2018white elephant\u2019 venues that long sit dormant after use, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has adopted a \u2018new norm\u2019 approach for the Brisbane 2032 Games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This plan, the IOC notes<\/a>, \u201cwill provide cities with increased flexibility in designing the Games to meet long-term development goals\u201d and \u201cinvites opportunities to reduce venue sizes, rethink transport options, optimise existing infrastructure and reuse the field of play for various sports.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the Games will continue to carry a significant overall cost<\/a>, the \u2018new norm\u2019 is an instructive concept, especially for the region\u2019s Pacific Games, which are held every four years and have provoked similar concerns around expenditure and venue sustainability. Tonga, for example, opted to not host<\/a> the 2019 Pacific Games, \u201cclaiming it could not afford to stage the event\u201d. Then-Tongan Prime Minister \u02bbAkilisi P\u014dhiva, when pulling out of hosting duties in 2017, said<\/a> hosting the Pacific Games would be a \u201ccostly mistake\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Venue sustainability and Beijing\u2019s regional \u2018stadium diplomacy<\/a>\u2019 have also raised concerns, exposing examples where Chinese-built facilities for the Pacific Games have not stood the test of time. In 2006, for example, the Chinese Government built<\/a> a $US 12.6 million aquatic centre to aid Samoa\u2019s preparation, only for it to fall apart<\/a> because the nation lacked any appropriate expertise to keep the facility operational. Having also worked at a similar sporting facility in Suva, Fiji, I have seen firsthand not only the limited durability of construction materials used, but also the prevalence of maintenance parts being exclusively Chinese sourced, and with maintenance manuals \u2013 incredibly difficult to find \u2013 also being written only in Chinese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beijing, however, has \u2018gone large\u2019 for the 2023 Pacific Games in Honiara, constructing<\/a> the main sports stadium, aquatic centre, tennis centre, food and beverage facilities, a multifunction hall and a hockey field and training field. This will only add further questions to ongoing maintenance issues and the need for \u2018new norm\u2019 thinking to be introduced as part of future Pacific Games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In starting to think about this, the new norm concepts<\/a> themselves are practical and transferable to other large-scale events. The IOC\u2019s \u2018revised requirements\u2019, for example, re-examine athlete village models, including size and layout, while also combining and optimising existing public transport uses, and sharing venues across multiple disciplines, \u201cdecreasing requirements on how many facilities a city would need to construct\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is not clear if any of this type of thinking was applied to Honiara. Much of the focus by the Sogavare Government \u2013 like most governments \u2013 has celebrated ribbon cutting, but not maintenance. Here the World Bank has warned that<\/a>, combined with the Solomons\u2019 externally funded road, airport, health and renewable energy infrastructure, the Pacific Games \u201cwill add annual maintenance costs of around SBD388 million (USD47.57 million). These pressures need to be carefully considered and planned for because we know that for every $1 invested in maintenance, $5 is saved on replacement costs.\u201d While large-scale infrastructure projects do factor in maintenance, and may even earmark appropriate resourcing within a specific timeframe, as the sporting examples further above show, it is relevant expertise that remains a key missing link in the ongoing facility and infrastructure sustainability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to thinking about the revised new norm requirements, and how these can be applied in future Pacific Games host cities, there will need to be clear alignment between the demand, prioritisation and sequencing of projects in Pacific states and the Games. It is clear that, like the pre \u2018new norm\u2019 days of previous Olympiads, most Pacific Games still start with rigid sports requirements and work \u2018top down\u2019 as a starting point, rather than first asking what is needed and how the gap between the Pacific Games and other non-Games infrastructure requirements can be brought together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three further considerations will be important. The first is a \u2018challenge\u2019 mindset, where it may be worth considering how to conduct a future Pacific Games without building any new <\/em>infrastructure. This is being attempted for the Los Angeles Games in 2028.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is a sustainability mindset, where Pacific Games host cities think not only about \u2018reduce, reuse, recycle\u2019 but even standing up temporary venues. As Associate Professor Judith Mair notes<\/a>, this temporary infrastructure \u201ccan be dismantled after the event, or temporarily adapt[ing] existing venues. This will keep the costs of building new venues to a minimum.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A third consideration, and one that can be implemented now, is getting Pacific Games organisers into the Brisbane 2032 tent, where knowledge and information exchange can begin to commence. While the scale is entirely different, the learnings will be important. The 2032 Games, after all, have been billed as a Games for \u2018the entire region\u2019. And future Pacific Games that represent not only value for money but much-needed and genuine legacy outcomes for Pacific citizens will be an important opportunity to seize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AUTHOR<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sean Jacobs is a Papua New Guinean-born Brisbane-based writer, government relations and public policy specialist.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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