<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Brisbane Racing Club has hit back at the Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate's suggestion to demolish Doomben Racecourse for a new Olympic stadium.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Tate is proposing the site should be razed to make way for the 2032 Brisbane Olympics, saying his idea makes sense.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"That location is primarily in a great location infrastructure-wise so people can get in and out of it," he said. </span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/monash-freeway-hallam-crash-six-teenagers-stopped-by-bystanders-after-crashing-allegedly-stolen-car/258ed5a1-109c-4202-8047-088e56bd092a" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Teens who tried to flee car crash stopped by shocked bystanders</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Tate argues that it would be easier to build a new stadium at the racecourse rather than at Victoria Park.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I bet you anything, the soil tests in Doomben would make it easier to construct," he said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"The soil tests on the other Victoria Park geotech report will show it's hard to build there."</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/row-over-gold-coast-mayors-plan-for-new-olympic-stadium/47bc6bc8-4cbc-4203-8164-e25c0ed2b46e" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The Gold Coast City Council has made its submissions to the 100-day Olympic venue review, also suggesting to host the swimming at the Aquatic Centre if it got a new roof.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>But the plan is news to the Doomben Racecourse operators.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Any plan that sees the end of racing at Doomben is a really problematic one," Brisbane Racing Club chief executive Karl deKroo said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/melbourne-bystanders-brought-mother-back-to-life/461feb72-e675-4e27-86c6-8bde31e06734" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Heroic efforts from bystanders brought Melbourne mum back to life, paramedics say</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Tom has his own way of doing things and I think we all accept that's the way he goes about it.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Disappointed, yes. But surprised, probably not all that much."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Brisbane Racing Club said both Doomben and Eagle Farm could instead support Olympic events like equestrian.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I think there's possibilities around training paddocks and or fields," deKroo said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The final decision will be up to the recently-appointed Infrastructure Authority, which will reveal its proposal for approval to the Queensland government.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The Infrastructure Authority's 100-day review is due in March.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-to-follow-9news-digital/29855bb1-ad3d-4c38-bc25-3cb52af1216f" target="_blank"><strong><em><span>DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP</span></em></strong></a><strong><em><span>: Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via our news app and get notifications sent straight to your smartphone. 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