The third piece of the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic emblems has been unveiled in Rockhampton, offering the first distinctly rounded element in a design still being assembled across Queensland.
The gold and magenta shape, which is almost spherical, was presented by retired track cyclist Anna Meares and wheelchair sprint athlete Angie Ballard at Riverside Park on Thursday.
It follows two more abstract pieces revealed earlier in the week. Swimmers Ian Thorpe and Grant “Scooter” Patterson introduced the first in Cairns on Tuesday, before rugby league greats Johnathan Thurston and Sam Thaiday unveiled the second at Townsville’s Castle Hill Lookout the following day.
The staged release is travelling down the Queensland coast, with the next piece due to appear on the Sunshine Coast on Friday before the rollout reaches the Gold Coast and Brisbane. The complete design is scheduled to be revealed on Monday morning.
Meares said she had been trying to work out whether the emerging emblem might depict an animal, flower or sun.
“I’ve been watching the last couple of days, and my initial thoughts was maybe it’s a local flower or a sun, and then after today I’m like, maybe it could be an artistic version of the bearded dragon,” she said.
Ballard said the latest element had made the final design harder to predict.
“I feel like we were heading in a direction the last two days, and today has definitely thrown that off course,” she said.
“I was thinking a little botanical, maybe a bird of paradise. Now I’m like, is this something to do with the sun and the sun rays? I don’t know.”
