Two of Queensland’s long-serving hockey administrators say few people in Queensland Hockey understand why Queensland’s State Hockey Centre is being bypassed for the Olympics and Paralympics in 2032.
Ballymore – Brisbane’s former home of rugby union – is being considered as a temporary location for the Olympic and Paralympic hockey.
The Ballymore plan is for temporary hockey facilities to be removed after the 2032 Games and the former rugby ground to become an “elite rugby training centre” and home to the Queensland Reds and the women’s rugby team, the Wallaroos. Ian Harcla, director of Brisbane Hockey Management Group, at the new Brisbane North Hockey pitch at Chermside.Ian Harcla, director of the Brisbane Hockey Management Group, made the comments at the opening game of the new Brisbane North Hockey Ground at Chermside, which could become an Olympic training facility.“For the competition for the Olympic Games we are still waiting for the panel and then the [Olympic sports] committee to come up with their decision,” he said.
“That is just over the river from the Games Village at [Hamilton] Northshore. It can be upgraded, and maybe put in an extra field or the Games.”“It would be preferable because hockey would get a legacy after the Games for the future, whereas with Ballymore we wouldn’t get anything.Harcla said Ipswich, Toowoomba and the Gold Coast – outside Brisbane – all have good hockey facilities.
“Providing the use of this technology does not compromise the long-term legacy benefits to hockey in the host country, the FIH endorses its use whenever there is a benefit in either locating one or more of the Games’ fields in an existing sports stadia, or building temporary fields that can be relocated to other locations following the Games,” it said.
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