Bids for the 2032 Summer Olympics

The selection of the host for the 2032 Summer Olympics saw a new process being introduced from 2019. The bidding process saw Brisbane, Australia, the first ever sole bidder for an Olympics bid, chosen as the preferred and expected host that was officially certified by the IOC on the eve of the 2020 Summer Olympics on 21 July 2021 in Tokyo, Japan.

Bidding process

The new IOC bidding process was approved at the 134th IOC Session on 24 June 2019 in Lausanne, Switzerland. The key proposals, driven by the relevant recommendations from Olympic Agenda 2020, are:

Establish a permanent, ongoing dialogue to explore and create interest among cities/regions/countries and National Olympic Committees for any Olympic event
Create two Future Host Commissions to oversee interest in future Olympic events and report to the IOC executive board
Give the IOC Session more influence by having non-executive board members form part of the Future Host Commissions.

The IOC also modified the Olympic Charter to increase its flexibility by removing the date of election from seven years before the games and changing the host as a city from a single city/region/country to multiple cities, regions, or countries.
The change in the bidding process was criticised by members of the German bid as "incomprehensible" and hard to surpass "in terms of non-transparency".

Future host summer commissions

The full composition of the summer commissions, who oversee interested hosts, or with potential hosts where the IOC may want to create interest, is as follows:

IOC members

Other members

Dialogue stages

According to Future Host Commission terms of reference with rules of conduct, the new IOC bidding system is divided into two dialogue stages are:

Continuous Dialogue: Non-committal discussions between the IOC and Interested Parties concerning hosting future Olympic events.
Targeted Dialogue: Targeted discussions with one or more Interested Parties, as instructed by the IOC Executive Board. This follows a recommendation by the Future Host Commission as a result of Continuous Dialogue.

Host selection

On 21 June 2021, Brisbane was confirmed as host of the 2032 Summer Olympics at the 138th IOC Session in Tokyo, Japan. As per the new format of choosing future Olympic Games host cities from the IOC's Agenda 2020, the vote was in a form of a referendum to the 80 IOC delegates. According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 72 of the delegates voted Yes, 5 voted No, and 3 other votes were abstained.

City	NOC name	Yes	No
Brisbane		72	5	3

Interested parties which did not advance to IOC board approval

The following were interested bidding parties for the 2032 Summer Olympics which did not advance to IOC board approval, one of which took part in targeted dialogue with the IOC and Future Host Commission:

Asia

Ahmedabad, India
Jakarta, Indonesia
Doha, Qatar

Europe

Rhine-Ruhr, Germany
Madrid, Spain

Other bids that did not advance

Cancelled or rejected bids

Asia

Seoul–Pyongyang, Korea
Delhi, India
Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Europe

St. Petersburg, Kazan, and Sochi, Russia

North America

Guadalajara, Tijuana, and Monterrey, Mexico