Nailed it Mariner - more than happy to swan around Europe and soak up the plaudits when the announcement was made, but it's not so easy now the chickens are coming home to roost.
Miles now standing behind John Coates, who was happy with the option they ran with. The IOC are fixated on not being seen to force Governments into constructing white elephant facilities (burned by multiple examples of disused stadiums in Rio, Athens etc).
But what the IOC don't take into account is that a new oval stadium would be far from a white elephant, and receive year round use from cricket, AFL, concerts. So their perspective isn't entirely valid here.
Hard to believe the Olympics are going from Tokyo, to Paris, to LA to... Brisbane doing it on the cheap. What an embarrassment it's going to be.
Ultimately the Olympics is for grown-up world cities. It never fit in Brisbane and the actions of Miles only shows why.