Unfortunately, there is no real link between elite sport and junior participation. Such claims are as fanciful as those made in the 1990s that kids around Australia were all learning how to bowl leg spin due to Shane Warne. That’s not to say the games were bad or should not have happened, only that justifying them on economic grounds is a silly way to do it.Ī similar smokescreen is that such games and elite sports foster increased participation in sport and thus reduce obesity and heart disease. I sure hope nothing happened to disrupt that prediction… Worse was that $1.4bn of these benefits was expected to come into the economy from 2018-19 until 2020-21. That seems large until you realise that in 2018-19 the annual Queensland economy was $350.4bn. The report also suggested the Games would increase Queensland’s economy by $2.5bn over those same nine years. Given right now there are around 1.98m people employed full-time in Queensland, that is not a big boost. One report after the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games boasted the games created 21,128 full-time equivalent jobs over nine years. Commonwealth Games, just like Olympic Games, are notorious for being justified by economic benefits that are more observed in potential than actuality.
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