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	SYDNEY 2000 OLYMPICS SPECIAL REPORT - No. 1
		Australian authorities repeatedly say there is "no specific threat" of terrorism against the Olympic games beginning September in Sydney, but sources in the security teams said that a judgment was made that any terrorist threat was likely to come from the Usama bin Laden-funded groups.
		Olympic security officials have already dealt with a number of threats leading up to the Sydney 2000 games.
		The OSCC is responsible for the Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
	www.emergency.com /2000/sydney2000a.htm (1982 words)

	2000 Olympic Games
		In 1956 when, for the first time, the Olympic Games were held south of the equator, in Melbourne, the Australian government were unwilling to shorten the usual six-month quarantine period for horses entering the country, so the equestrian disciplines were forced to take place in June in the Swedish capital, Stockholm.
		Since the1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta a qualification system for the participation of horses and riders in the three disciplines (show jumping, dressage and three-day event) at the Olympics has been introduced by the FEI (International Equestrian Federation).
		Olympics action at Horsley Park will be the first Olympic venue to open its gates to competitors on August 21 when, at 7:30 a.m., the first contingent of overseas horses will land in Sydney after a 26-hour trip.
	www.equestrian.org /olympics/countdown.html (3980 words)

	Sydney 2000 Olympic Games: Surfing the Net with Kids
		The five interlacing rings of blue, yellow, fl, green, and red became the official Olympic logo in 1913.
		"The Olympic rings represent the union of the five continents and the meeting of athletes throughout the world at the Olympic Games.
		Written expressly for students, Scholastic covers the games with a focus on interacting with kids from around the world.
	www.surfnetkids.com /olympics2000.htm (583 words)

	eBay Inc. - Athlete Memorabilia From Sydney 2000 Olympic Games to be Sold on eBay
		Olympic Aid is based on the Olympic ideals of peace, human dignity and the pursuit of excellence.
		During the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, Australian and international athletes have joined together to actively help Olympic Aid enable children to develop as individuals and participate in their communities through greater access to sport.
		Olympic Aid, a global partner of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), was founded in 1994 at the Lillehammer Winter Games.
	investor.ebay.com /releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=26938 (464 words)

	2000 SYDNEY OLYMPIC GAMES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The third and final stage of the journey will commence on September 15, 2000 when the Olympic flame is lit before 80,000 spectators in Sydney's new Olympic stadium, marking the start of the 24th Olympic Games in the modern era, and the second held in both Australia and the southern hemisphere.
		The Olympic flag is expected to be taken on a national tour in late 1996 or early 1997, signifying the "arrival" of the rights for Sydney to conduct the Games.
		Sydney Organising Committee For The Olympic Games (SOCOG)
	abc.net.au /olympics_1996/game2000.htm (1807 words)

	The Green Games 2000 Home Page
		The Sydney 2000 Olympic Games - 15 September to 1 October - followed by the Paralympic Games - 18 to 29 October - were dubbed 'the Green Games'.
		The organisers of the Sydney 2000 Games were acclaimed for their unprecedented commitment to environmental excellence in planning and staging the events.
		Major events like the Olympic Games can have massive impacts on the environment, causing land to be cleared for venues, generating tonnes of waste for landfills and requiring huge volumes of water for everything from showers to irrigating sports fields.
	www.environment.gov.au /events/greengames/index.html (748 words)

	stuart mcintosh : olympic games 2000
		The quest to get to race the 2000 Olympics started in 1999, when I was selected for the Great Britain Team to compete at the World Championships in Spain.
		The Olympic Games was amazing - flying to Australia, walking around Sydney, entering the Olympic Village for the first time and seeing people I had only ever seen in the papers, and watching some of the Olympic events.
		During the build up to the Olympics, I focused on trying to control all these sort of uncontrollable situations - making sure I could always get to the venue even if the car broke down, using three alarm clocks and trying to make sure my family and friends were happy.
	www.stuartmcintosh.co.uk /html/personal/2000.htm (1220 words)

	Green Games 2000: Olympic Landcare
		In 2000, another 500 community groups around Australia were chosen to participate in a week-long Olympic Landcare challenge from 5 to 11 August.
		Each group planted 2,000 native seedlings to realise a national tally of one million trees planted along the Torch Path in the lead-up to the Olympic Games.
		Also during 2000, Landcare Australia urged community groups, schools and individuals across Australia to join the challenge and carry out their own Spring tree plantings to increase the number of trees and shrubs planted to four million - as a legacy of the Olympic Games.
	www.deh.gov.au /events/greengames/olymland.html (291 words)

	Official Olympic Games Report 2000 Sydney
		An important influence on the Sydney 2000 Games was the growing awareness of the complexity of the event and its impacts, the need for coordination and in many cases for integration of functions and effort to meet operational demands.
		The Post Games Report had to mirror this in its structure and content or it would neither adequately reflect the reality of Sydney 2000 Games preparations, nor the major lessons to be learned from them.
		Organising the Olympic Games is a huge and complex task which is carried out for each host city largely by people with no previous experience and under the intense scrutiny of local and international media.
	olympic-museum.de /o-reports/report2000.htm (1414 words)

	Athens Olympics 2004
		Fittingly for an Olympic Games that was, more than most, about beginnings and endings, the honour of carrying the Australian flag and leading the team at the closing ceremony was given to veteran swimmer Petria Thomas.
		As is the fate of many Olympic athletes, the members of the men's hockey team who won perhaps the most thrilling of Australia's 17 gold medals will return to relative obscurity once the celebrations have died down.
		Olympic historian Harry Gordon speaks to Roy Masters about his impression of how the Games will be remembered.
	www.smh.com.au /olympics (464 words)

	CNN.com - ASIANOW - Thousands light the Sydney sky as 2000 Olympic Games open - September 14, 2000
		SYDNEY, Australia (CNN) --In music and in words, with smoke and fire, from the populous coasts to the rugged, empty Outback, Australia's Olympic organizers thrilled the 110,000 spectators and an estimated four billion television viewers with a spectacular opening ceremony on Friday evening to herald the start of the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
		Olympics chief Juan Antonio Samaranch greeted the Australian audience with a Spanish-accented "g'day" and Australian Governor General Sir William Deane declared the games officially open near the end of the colorful ceremony.
		With the crowd roaring, the Olympic rings that hang from the landmark bridge illuminated as the last sunlight faded, and fireworks shot from the bridge's anchorage.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/ASIANOW/australasia/09/15/olympic.preview (1360 words)

	Sydney 2000 Olympic games
		The flag was presented by Games founder Baron de Coubertin at the 1914 Olympic Congress, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the founding of the IOC.
		Carl Diem, chairman of the organising committee for the 1936 Berlin Games, proposed that the flame be lit in Greece and transported to Berlin via a torch relay.
		Ansett (the official Sydney 2000 Games airline) and Traveland (the official travel agent) are hoping to provide the opportunity for as many Australians as possible to fly to the event.
	australian.lifetips.com /cat/11748/sydney-2000-olympic-games/index.html (4936 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		The Paralympic Games are elite sport events for athletes from different disability groups.
		The number of athletes participating in the Summer Paralympic Games has increased from 400 athletes in Rome in 1960 to 3,806 athletes from 136 countries in Athens in 2004.
		The Organising Committees of the Olympic Games (OCOGs) organise the Olympic Games in collaboration with their National Olympic Committee and the host city.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/index_uk.asp (175 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		The Sydney 2000 Games were the largest yet, with 10,651 athletes competing in 300 events.
		Cathy Freeman (AUS-athletics) had the honour to light the Olympic flame at the opening ceremony of the Games.
		She symbolized the desire to reconcile the white and Aboriginal populations of Australia and was the aborigine medal hopeful.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=2000 (270 words)

	2000 Sydney Olympic Stadium
		When the Olympics are over, the temporary grandstands at both ends of the stadium will be replaced by roofed grandstands, reducing the stadium's capacity to about 80,000.
		It may be tough to control freelancers who appropriate the rings for "Olympic" kangaroo pizza, but with large-scale, ambush marketing under control, the 2000 Olympics should be a reasonably dignified event, Australian officials say.
		This means everything from access to high level Games' sponsor networks for commercial purposes and the potential for investors to attend Olympic events in the year 2000," according to its literature.
	olympics.ballparks.com /2000Sydney/index.htm (2213 words)

	Sydney 2000 Olympic Games - 11/10/2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Games are over, the athletes have gone and we will not in the next few years see the Olympic Games beach volleyball or the 100 metres men's or women's track, swimming or anything else.
		It was commendable to have that commence in Goulburn.
		The make-up of the committee indicated the bipartisanship of the Games.
	www.parliament.nsw.gov.au /prod/parlment/hansart.nsf/V3Key/LA20001011002 (22930 words)

	Basketball: Steve Nash
		He averaged 8.6 points per game, 4.9 assists and shot 40 percent from behind the 3-point line for the Dallas Mavericks in 1999-2000.
		In April 2000, Nash started Dallas' 10 games and averaged 13.6 points and 7.9 assists.
		At the Olympic qualifier last year he averaged 12.2 points, 5.8 assists and 4.5 rebounds and was named the tournament MVP.
	www.canoe.ca /2000GamesBiosN2Z/nash.html (318 words)

	Olympic Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		At the Olympic Games, the horse Over and Over broke a leg in cross country eventing, and had to be euthanized after it was determined that surgery would not be successful.
		Prior to her Olympic and Commonwealth achievements, Ottey won silver medals in the 100 and 200 meters in the 1979 CARIFTA Games (behind 100m winner Raymonde Naigré of Guadeloupe, and 200m winner Oralee Fowler of the Bahamas) and the 1979 Pan American Games 200 meter bronze.
		PanPan, a panda, was the mascot of the 1990 Asian Games in Beijing, a rooster, Dongdong the mascot of the 1993 East Asian Games in Shanghai.
	www.internationalgames.net /olympic.htm (8101 words)

	The Men's Football Olympic Games 2000 - Sydney
		The most popular sport in the world, football (soccer) was first introduced onto the Olympic program in Paris in 1900 and is celebrating its 100th year as an Olympic sport at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.
		Football is the only Olympic sport that will be played outside Sydney during the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, with preliminary matches to be held at the Brisbane Football Stadium, Lang Park in Brisbane, Bruce Stadium in Canberra, Hindmarsh Stadium in Adelaide, the Melbourne Cricket Ground and the Sydney Football Stadium.
		The Olympic Football Tournaments involve sixteen men's teams and eight women's teams whose matches are allocated throughout the four interstate cities.
	www.sportscheduler.co.sz /olympics2000.htm (310 words)

	Australian Olympics, 2000
		Animal Olympics is a Maths project, which encourages students to look at the speeds of animals and decide if humans would win if animals were allowed to compete in the Olympics.
		Spike, the virtual thorny devil, and Eddie the virtual frilled-neck lizard have developed a project to encourage students around the world to study the history of the Olympic Games and to discover the excitement of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games events.
		Topics covered are Olympic history, Olympic symbols, the present games, and memorable moments including the massacres at Munich and future Olympic Games.
	www.gigglepotz.com /ausolympics.htm (702 words)

	Olympic Fever - The Sydney 2000 Olympic Games - Facts
		Olly, Syd and Millie are the official mascots of the Sydney Olympics.
		The Village is planned to accommodate 10 200 competitors and 5 100 delegation officials at the time of the Olympic Games.
		The Olympic Games is the largest single broadcast event in the world.
	library.thinkquest.org /28526/facts.html (536 words)

	2000 Olympic Games Open
		And further more, the Sydney Olympic Games will be remembered in history forever as the Korean Peninsula was reunified for the first time in Olympic Movement since 1945.
		At 2310 local time, Cathy Freeman, an Australian heroine from Aboriginal descent, lit the cauldron with the Olympic flame, which was ignited from the sun's rays at a special ceremony in Olympia, Greece and relayed to the Olympic Stadium after touring the host country in the last 99 days.
		The "we won't cheat" clause was inserted into the traditional Olympic oath, which was read on behalf of all athletes by Australian women's hockey team captain Rechelle Hawkes at the ceremony.
	english.peopledaily.com.cn /english/200009/15/eng20000915_50612.html (803 words)

	Sydney Olympic Games Information
		At the end of the Games the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG) donated its corporate library to the State Library of NSW.
		The Official Olympic Post Games Report was published and presented to the IOC President in February 2002 at the Salt Lake City Winter Games.
		As required by the State Records Act 1998 official records of the Sydney 2000 Games agencies sentenced for permanent retention will be transferred to State Records Authority of NSW as State archives.
	www.gamesinfo.com.au /home.html (1023 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 13 \| 1993: Green light for Manchester Olympics
		Officials in Manchester bidding to hold the 2000 Olympic Games have been told their chances are "very, very high".
		The final decision about who will host the millennium Olympic Games will be made by the 90 members of the IOC in Monte Carlo on 23 September.
		The Sydney Olympics was the biggest games to date with 10,651 athletes competing in 300 events.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/13/newsid_2502000/2502947.stm (436 words)

	Olympic Games - Olympics links - Internet links
		Athens 2004 Olympic Games, Sydney 2000 Olympic Games,
		The site of the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC), the organisation responsible for preparing Australia's athletes for the Olympic Games, is archived at the Pandora archive at the National Library of Australia.
		It has information on Olympia, birthplace of the Olympic Games, the history of the ancient Games and events, including pancration (a combination of wrestling and boxing) and the horse races.
	www.sl.nsw.gov.au /links/olympics/olympics.cfm (792 words)

	China: China's Bid for the Olympic Games 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		These Asia Games were considered a dress rehearsal for a possible application to become the host city of the Games in 2000.
		The application was decided in April 1991 and the "2000 Olympic Games Bidding Committee" was founded.
		Despite that Chinese athletes successfully participated in the Games in Sydney in 2000 and won 3rd rank behind the USA and Russia with 28 gold, 16 silver and 15 bronze medals.
	www.chinaorbit.com /2008-olympics-china/2000-olympic-games-china.html (310 words)

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