Hayden Johnson

Brisbane 2032 legacy boss and sports powerbroker Mark Arbib is the new Australian Olympic Committee chief executive officer.

Talented athletes have been lost to slow and cumbersome processes and a culture of uninspiring leadership is rife within Queensland Academy of Sport, a powerful group of sports administrators and former Olympians says.

Hopes of gold medal maker Chelsea Warr returning to lead the Queensland Academy of Sport have been dashed by her appointment to the board of Swimming Australia.

A bureaucratic bungle has erased the qualifications of about 1000 emergency services volunteers – stopping them from helping Queenslanders should a natural disaster strike today.

The International Olympic Committee “will pay” if it refuses to allow rowing to held in Rockhampton’s Fitzroy River, Deputy Premier and Infrastructure Minister Jarrod Bleijie has sensationally warned.

Olympic rowing could be hosted at Lake Wyaralong for a fraction of the $300m forecast, Scenic Rim Mayor Tom Sharp says.

Premier David Crisafulli is declining to back his deputy’s demand for compensation from the International Olympic Committee if Rockhampton is found unsuitable to host rowing.

The Sydney Opera House could be used to promote Brisbane’s Olympics when the curtain falls at the Los Angeles Games.

Queensland’s Olympic Games venues are at risk of not being ready unless the state lifts weak productivity and permanently removes controversial Best Practice Industry Conditions, a major new report reveals.

Queensland Health has been raided for documents related to the controversial axing of Krispin Hajkowicz as chief health officer, after Premier David Crisafulli and has cabinet were referred to the state’s corruption watchdog by the Labor Opposition.