Hi
A few days ago it was announced that the Brumby Government has announce a full redevelopment of Melbourne Park to secure the Grand Slam to stay in Melbourne as there was rumours that Sydney and China were secretly bidding for the honour to host the Grand Slam. I have read that Dubai and other Asian countries have been interested and would love to host the Grand Slam in their city. I applaud Minister Brumby of making this decision to expand and put money, which is estimated at $300 million, to make Melbourne Park into a better facility for the players, media and the spectators.
I can’t wait till they start building, I’m not sure if it will be done for the 2010 Australian Open but it is suppose to be ready by 2016 because that is when the contract for Melbourne Park finishes up to host the Grand Slam.
An image of the proposed improvements to the Melbourne Park precinct.
I only found one picture of the new redevelopment from www.theage.com.au
The future looks bright for the future of the Australian Open in Melbourne. I would never want the Open to move to Sydney or any other city. I told a friend about the possibility of the Open to go to Sydney and they said that the attendance wouldn’t be as large as Melbourne’s and Sydney doesn’t have any of the facilities or a tennis stadium like Melbourne has.
Also I am very pissed off at a article that I found when looking for the above picture. Apparently a UK newspaper had the article saying that Australia is just too hot to host international sport and Britian has the right weather for sport. Excuse me but Australia has much better weather and our summer actually feels like summer, not a retarded Spring. Yes, it may become extremely hot sometimes (such as this week, 40 degrees until Saturday) but saying Australia shouldn’t host any international sport or our teams are becoming poor players because of the heat. The article was also racist to us Australians. Unbelievable. I didn’t even know you could be racist to Australians but here is a direct quote from the article:
Australia is no place to host big international sporting tournaments; except maybe the world kangaroo long-jump.
Can you believe that rubbish? And this quote also pissed me off:
They had a poor Olympics.
Who the hell wrote this garbage? Does anyone remember what IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch declared at the Closing Ceremony of the Sydney Olympics?
“I am proud and happy to proclaim that you have presented to the world the best Olympic Games ever.”
I’m sure the Athens or the Beijing Olympics had great Olympics also but saying Sydney had “poor Olympics” the nerve on the Poms!
I don’t mind any British people. (Their accents are sexy) I actually went to Britain and enjoyed my stay. But seeing racist and outrages articles like this one just spreads hate and bad opinions about my country. It’s not on. Yes I know I can’t stop articles like this one to pop up or change peoples opinions about Australia but I can voice my own opinions to object what they write. Thank God for Freedom of Speech!
