Abstract
This chapter provides a comparative case analysis of the long-term impact of major sport events on Australia’s two largest cities, Sydney and Melbourne (2000 Olympics and the 2006 Commonwealth Games). The Sydney and Melbourne case studies show that the scale of any legacy is contingent upon the initial investment injected into the event. Whereas Sydney invested just over AUD 3.5 billion into the 2000 Olympics, Melbourne’s investment in the 2006 Commonwealth Games was around AUD 1.1 million. While the benefits that accrued to Melbourne were narrowly focused on two medium-scale international-standard sport facilities, the benefits to Sydney were much broader and more significant. At the same time, it is not clear that the legacies from each event had been optimized. In each of these cases, substantial risks were incurred, including cost over-runs and sub-standard accommodation.
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Stewart, B. (2014). A Tale of Two Australian Cities. In: Grix, J. (eds) Leveraging Legacies from Sports Mega-Events: Concepts and Cases. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137371188_6
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