Is the Fitzroy River a suitable venue for the Brisbane Olympics, given it’s home to crocodiles?

By Richard Baka, Honorary Professor, School of Kinesiology, Western University, London, Canada; Adjunct Fellow, Olympic Scholar and Co-Director of the Olympic and Paralympic Research Centre, Institute for Health and Sport, Victoria University
H. Björn Galjaardt, PhD Researcher, The University of Queensland
Tracy Taylor, ADVC Research College of Business and Law, RMIT University

It sounds crazy – hosting Olympic rowing and canoeing on a river home to crocodiles. Yet that’s what is likely to happen in Brisbane in 2032.

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