{"id":29803,"date":"2017-04-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/sports-minister-flags-potential-future-event-for-adelaide\/"},"modified":"2017-04-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T00:00:00","slug":"sports-minister-flags-potential-future-event-for-adelaide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/sports-minister-flags-potential-future-event-for-adelaide\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports Minister flags potential future event for Adelaide"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Sport and Tourism Minister Leon Bignell has floated the possibility that Adelaide may be better off hosting the Asian Games rather than the Commonwealth Games.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThings are changing,\u201d Mr Bignell told FIVEAA\u2019s David and Will on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur ties to the Commonwealth probably aren\u2019t as strong as they were even a decade ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/au\/podcast\/david-and-will\/id1167323375?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>David and Will podcast on iTunes here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adelaidenow.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">On Tuesday The Advertiser<\/a> reported that SA\u2019s bid for the 2030 Comm Games was at risk of losing out to Victoria unless the government \u201cgets it act together\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr Bignell rejected the suggestion:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019re at risk of losing it at all,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve done all the work that we need to do, but the next step &#8212; and we\u2019ve told the Comm Games Assoc of Australia that we are dead keen to do it &#8212; but the next step costs $10 million. That\u2019s $10 million just to put your hat in the ring. It doesn\u2019t even guarantee that you would be the Australian selection. We think that\u2019s a lot of money.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>But he raised the possibility of bidding to host the Asian Games:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBetween now and \u201822 we will be going into the Asian Games\u2026 so maybe we put our hand up to host them down the track where you\u2019ve got Japan and China and all the Asian countries competing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat may be where we\u2019re at in 2030.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/au\/podcast\/david-and-will\/id1167323375?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>David and Will podcast on iTunes here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/eddie-betts-reveals-the-impact-of-race-disgrace-on-his-family\">BETTS REVEALS IMPACT ON HIS FAMILY OF RACE DISGRACE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/leigh-matthews-declares-crows-star-one-of-the-best\"><strong>LEIGH MATTHEWS RANKS ADELAIDE CROW AS ONE OF THE BEST<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sport and Tourism Minister Leon Bignell has floated the possibility that Adelaide may be better off hosting the Asian Games rather than the Commonwealth Games. \u201cThings are changing,\u201d Mr Bignell told FIVEAA\u2019s David and Will on Tuesday. \u201cOur ties to the Commonwealth probably aren\u2019t as strong as they were even a decade ago.\u201d David and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-29803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-david-and-will","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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