Bruce McIverney
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45 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 23 Jul
Bruce McIverney’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It was a feeling of, you know, shallowness, emptiness.
It was so much anticipation surrounding it.
You know, this incredible city with all the history of,
sport and that 1956 history as well.
And we felt like the time was right.
Brisbane had had a go earlier and we just felt like everything was coming together.
So I left sort of that night and the next few weeks, I guess, Gerard, thinking, well, I don't think I'm going to see an Olympic Games in our country in the foreseeable future.
So it was a feeling, it was pretty devastating to be truthful.
We'd built our hopes up so high and we were really hit for six.
And there was a
sort of a stigma about the fact that Atlanta got them, you know, the Coca-Cola games or whatever you might feel about that.
But, yeah, you know, it was a feeling of great disappointment.
And that was an incredible night.
I remember, I think there were still five cities left.
I look off the top of my head, but
One of the cities was Istanbul and they had tried a lot and I remember getting on the, we got on the bus and I was with Ray Martin and the late Gary Fenton from Channel 7 and I spoke to one of the Turkish leading journalists and I said, what do you reckon?
He said,
where certainties he seems to be.
This is Istanbul.
And I looked at Ray and I looked at Gary and I thought, well, we can't win, can we?
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