The showpiece attractions of any Olympic Games are the venues where feats of sporting brilliance take place. It is these arenas that provide the stages, the names of which echo throughout history as readily as the athletes who graced them.

Sailing the Whitsunday islands. Surfing an iconic Gold Coast break. Rowing in a crocodile-inhabited river in Rockhampton. Extra tourism-focused venues and a new 60,000-seat Olympic stadium to be built in inner-city parkland have been unveiled as part of a major overhaul of planning for the 2032 Brisbane Games.

A 60,000-seat stadium for the Brisbane Olympics has been unveiled as part of a major overhaul of planning for the 2032 Summer Games