By article 33, and thanks to the weight that John Coates, vice president of the IOC and Australian, has in the Olympic fabric, Brisbane was ratified as the city that will host the 2032 Games. No more maps of Lula with his portfolio on the lectern , the aid for the development of sports in the Gambia of Beatrice Allen -voter in 2013 in Buenos Aires- and the invitations to the Plaza Mayor to have the Relaxing Cup of coffee with milk. Redford and Newman will still be missing in a game of marked cards, but, at least, the feeling of waste is parked from the Olympic elections.

Tokyo finished off a new formula more worthy of ensuring the future of the Olympic movement and its party. In that Thomas Bach, with his proselytism, culminated a perfect move, a straight flush in a game that seemed headed for a bluff. The cast of Paris and Los Angeles, the contenders for the 2024 Games, propelling the city of Malibu into 2028, bought enough time to end the intolerable marketing that the Olympic designations had become.

More than awareness, it was necessity that has brought about the change. In October 2009 in Copenhagen an embarrassing scene took place. Those members of the IOC who had launched themselves as if they had burst a lock on Barack and Michele Obama at the 'coffee break' to show off with the photos in front of their families, paid for it minutes later with the humiliation of Chicago, the city for whose interests He had traveled from Washington. He got 18 votes. She was eliminated first time.

The invoice

The contempt was remarkable. The almost childish behaviors of breakfast were transformed into the callousness of an executioner in the afternoon. A court of schemers, some of dubious reputation, deliberately dragged the image of the most powerful man on the planet. The United States had to be unhorsed for its obstinacy in not giving up a more generous percentage of the money it took from the television rights of the Games and the sponsorship program.

The scene marked the end of the golden age that had begun four years earlier at Singapore's Raffles with London, Paris, Madrid, Moscow and New York. Five cities had also been present at this appointment, although the IOC knocked down Doha before. Tokyo, which dominates the Pacific axis; Chicago, Rio de Janeiro, the stigma of a country that wanted to climb with its discovered oil fields to the first world wagon, and Madrid, which was experiencing (false) buoyant moments and had more Cayennes than Germany. At least 14 other cities also expressed their desire, albeit with a broken voice.

The wave of Lehman Brothers also strangled the IOC, a powerful organization with an amazing economic strength to withstand the swell. Successively what was a television show superior to the draw for a World Cup, languished. And the future became threatening. The suitors were only countries where Human Rights are questioned: Azerbaijan, Russia, China... Stockholm, for the winter of 2022, launched the first rocket. They would not bear the bill of those hundred elitists who asked for five-star hotels and two-fork hotels. Every referendum in the city was a defeat. As if the people wanted to take out the knife to hunt for wigs with ringlets. For the winter of 2022, the proposal was reduced to Astana or Beijing.

The new formula, the economic proposal for which Madrid opted for 2020 at the wrong time -it went to a contest where jewels were still worn with pockets full of rags-, caught on with the IOC technocrats, Bach's notables, who advised him to formula with which Brisbane has won. Voting, as stated in the 2020 Agenda, has ended. Now agreements are styled with cities that show some interest and they will take care of adapting it. For 36, Berlin as reparation for the Games of a century ago that are remembered in the dark seems a good option. A joint one, now that the multisites are validated, together with Tel Aviv would still sound better.

This has been the end of kissing hands and genuflections. Mainly because by condition they were being requested from the wrong side.