Melbourne chases 1996 Games
A sAust2so million sports complex, the largest of its kind in Australia, would be the showpiece of Melbourne’s Olympic Games bid, the Premier, John Cain, said recently.
Mr Cain announced details of a $ Aust2 billion construction programme in preparation for the possible siting of the 1996 Games in Melbourne. Plans announced at a news conference included: • details of the planned Olympic Village in Melbourne's dockland
area • a multi-storey complex to house the thousands of media representatives who would be covering the Games • a velodrome at the Show Grounds • a “peoples’ village” in the heart of the city’s Olympic precinct. The plans will be taken by Mr Cain and Melbourne’s delegation to an International Olympic Committee meeting in Puerto Rico later . this month.
Mr Cain said Melbourne’s facilities would set the scene for an Olympic Games which would be “compact, cosmopolitan, friendly and secure.” The major strengths of the facilities were their closeness to the city and the fact that they would be valuable to the community long after the Games were over. “While Melbourne’s bid is getting that winning edge, it is also setting up a lasting benefit for generations,” Mr Cain
said. The Olympic bid chief executive, Max Roger, said the giant sporting complex at Albert Park, south of the city, would be the largest of its kind in Australia. In a linked series of six stadiums seating 48,000 spectators, the new centre would provide Australia’s top venue for swimming, diving, basketball, badminton, volleyball and table tennis, he said. Mr Roger said one of the*, major tasks of those
responsible for Melbourne’s Olympic bid was now to get officials from the International Olympic Committee to visit Melbourne and see the facilities it had to offer. He said Melbourne was at a clear disadvantage in terms of its distance from the other Olympic bidders and both he and other members of Melbourne’s delegation to the Puerto Rico meeting would be doing all they could to lure officials to Melbourne.— NZPA-AAP f
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