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	2000 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Olympic flag was flown at half-staff during the period as a sign of respect to Samaranch's wife.
		People in Canada that wanted to see the Olympics between then and the closing ceremonies had to turn to TSN because the CBC was broadcasing news coverage related to the passing and state funeral of the former prime minister.
		Organisation of the 2000 Summer Paralympics was the responsibility of SPOC the Sydney Paralympic Organising Committee.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sydney_Olympics (1837 words)

	SYDNEY OLYMPICS
		Sydney's win was not only a result of some IOC member's decision to punish China for its human rights abuses but also as a result of Australia's strong commitment to hold environmentally friendly games.
		"Sydney is a cosmopolitan city, with a sophisticated lifestyle that reflects Australia's dynamic economy and culture." The mixture of cultures and traditions has been a major attraction for foreign visitors.
		Culture: YES Unique to the Sydney Olympics is the cultural program which will express "humanity's quest for peace and harmony." The cultural Olympiad will begin in 1997 with the "Festival of the Dreaming." The festival is a celebration of the world's indigenous cultures, focusing on the Aborigines.
	www.american.edu /TED/SYDNEY.HTM (2377 words)

	Athens Olympics 2004. ABC Sport.
		But while every Olympic city has a fabulous stadium, nowhere else in the world could events be held at Ancient Olympia - the home of the ancient Games - and the magnificent Panathinaiko Stadium, home of the first Games of the modern era back in 1896.
		Through the prism of history, the Athens Olympics may come to be seen as the Games at which two major trends emerged - the rise of Asian nations as Olympic powers and the time the war on drugs became serious.
		They were making up for Sydney, where a back injury suffered by Ginn in the final stages of their preparation robbed them of the chance to compete in the pair.
	www.abc.net.au /olympics (2755 words)

	CNN - Money offered night before Sydney won Olympics - January 22, 1999
		John Coates, president of the Australian Olympic Committee and a leader of the Sydney bid, said Friday that he had offered $35,000 inducements to the national Olympic committees of both Kenya and Uganda.
		Jean Grenier, a member of the Quebec City Olympic Committee and the father of three Olympic speed skaters, remembers a "huge" party thrown by Salt Lake officials for IOC members.
		Quebec City Olympic bid chairman Rene Pacquet said some of his colleagues were approached for bribes, sometimes by IOC members and, at other times, by "agents" who said they could help Quebec win IOC votes during the selection process.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/europe/9901/22/olympics.03 (1345 words)

	Olympics 2000: tips for the Sydney Olympics from Indiana University
		A terrorist attack at the Olympics in Sydney is possible, according to William Head, IU assistant professor of criminal justice and a consultant on anti-terrorist security.
		"Sydney organizers felt that part of their success (in securing the Olympics) was dependent upon extensive study of what worked and what didn't work at previous Olympics," said Pamm Kellett, assistant professor of sport management in the IU School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation.
		Two IU coaches were honored by coaching twice in the Olympics: James "Doc" Counsilman for swimming in 1964 and 1976 and Hobie Billingsley for diving in 1968 and 1972.
	newsinfo.iu.edu /tips/page/normal/1578.html (2211 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)

	Sydney Olympics offers Beijing lessons on environmental protection - 0fficial
		Some lessons learned from the Sydney Olympic Games are key to ensuring that Beijing will deliver a "Green Olympics" in 2008, an official from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said in Beijing on Saturday.
		As Sydney did not keep detailed records of how it performed against the environmental guidelines nor require an accredited, independent auditor to verify this information, it is impossible to properly gauge the city's Olympic environmental achievements and shortcomings.
		Schmitt noted that during Sydney's build-up to the 2000 Games, architects, project coordinators and suppliers showed great enthusiasm for and expertise in environmental building and event management but were rarely involved.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /en/doc/2002-11/03/content_142132.htm (412 words)

	BBC SPORT \| OLYMPICS2000
		Britain's Olympic team flies home with a collective smile of delight at their achievement.
		Olympic rower and BBC Five Live commentator Richard Phelps reviews the British rowing performances in Sydney.
		The Sydney boxing competition is cleared of claims of corruption - despite two referees being suspended.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport/hi/english/olympics2000 (508 words)

	Australia’s Green Olympics
		Sydney, Australia’s oldest and largest city, is well advanced in its preparations to host the 2000 Olympics.
		Sydney’s aim is to continue that tradition and to stage an event which will celebrate the spirit of the Olympics and respond to current ecological concerns by managing the 2000 Games as a Green Olympics.
		Addressing State Parliament on 27 October l993, he said the Sydney Olympics would be "an international role model for how ecologically sustainable development can be implemented through the construction of facilities, the design of the athletes’ village and management of the Games".
	www.about-australia.com /spgreen.htm (1865 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		The Sydney 2000 Games were the largest yet, with 10,651 athletes competing in 300 events.
		Despite their size, they were well organised, renewing faith in the Olympic Movement.
		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 (253 words)

	Europe Business Review: Business Seeks Sydney Olympics gold
		The ticket policy and pricing decisions of the IOC and the Sydney organisers are still months away.Already freeloaders, including politicians and lobbyists, are jostling for seats amid public and media suspicions that many tickets will be so costly that they will create an "Olympics for elites" - particularly at the glamorous athletic and swimming finals.
		The Sydney Olympics will be the biggest, in terms of sports (28) and competitors (10,200).
		Sydney does not consider Atlanta 1996 as a benchmark because its public transport and computer problems earned it only a "C plus" rating from experts.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0GYN/is_6_2/ai_57605025 (1453 words)

	2000 Sydney Olympics on KSL
		SYDNEY, Australia (AP) _ A worn-out looking Juan Antonio Samaranch completed an almost 30-hour trip to Sydney on Monday for what will be his last Olympics as president of the IOC.
		Samaranch was ushered through Sydney International Airport by Olympics Minister Michael Knight, head of the Sydney organizing committee, IOC vice president Kevan Gosper and IOC director general Francois Carrard.
		He said he was not concerned about the prospect of a chain of Aboriginal campaigners confronting Olympic visitors during roadside protests Sept. 10-14 near Sydney Airport.
	web.ksl.com /TV/olympics/sydney/0904sama.php (399 words)

	2000 Summer Olympics -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The other medals are taken by (A republic in southeastern Europe; formerly a European soviet; the center of the original Russian state which came into existence in the ninth century) Ukraine and (A federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state) Russia, respectively.
		The title completed her return to the sport after a long break because of ((psychiatry) a psychological disorder characterized by somatic delusions that you are too fat despite being emaciated) anorexia nervosa.
		On September 28, the CBC was airing the Olympics when the network's chief correspondent, (Click link for more info and facts about Peter Mansbridge) Peter Mansbridge, interrupted it to break news to Canadians that (Click link for more info and facts about Pierre Elliott Trudeau) Pierre Elliott Trudeau had died.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/2/20/2000_summer_olympics.htm (3506 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| Did the Sydney Olympics pay off?
		Sydney Olympic Park, the most visible reminder of sporting glories of four years ago is now the world's case study in how to survive after the circus has left town.
		In the next 15 years Olympic park will change from a showcase for athletes to a desirable residential address, promises Sydney Olympic Park's chief executive Brian Newman.
		September 11 and the Sars virus robbed the city of its chance to capitalise on the Olympics.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/business/3549580.stm (786 words)

	Sydney Olympic Games Information
		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.
		In late 2001 the 25,000 SOCOG images were transferred to The Sydney Olympic Park Authority for cataloguing and rental/sale.
	www.gamesinfo.com.au /home.html (1023 words)

	Sydney Olympics and Toxic Waste
		The solution was to concentrate on and market other "green" aspects of Sydney's bid and ensure that discussion of the contamination was kept out of the public arena.2 The SOBL enlisted some environmentalists and environmental consultants to produce environmental guidelines for the construction and operation of Olympic facilities.
		John Pollack, a biochemist and honorary associate of the University of Sydney who advises the Total Environment Centre, says chemicals can enter the body via ingestion, absorption through the skin and inhalation of gases, vapours, dusts or aersols and be distributed through the body via the bloodstream.
		Heavily contaminated waste from the southern end of the Olympics precinct beneath and adjacent to the aquatic centre, has been excavated and removed to a nearby secure landfill where it is proposed to build hardstand carpark areas some time in the future.
	www.uow.edu.au /arts/sts/sbeder/Olympic.html (4331 words)

	State government takes direct control of Olympics Financial fiasco brewing in Australia over Sydney Olympic Games
		The takeover means that the NSW government will run all Olympic sporting venues and control 35,000 of the 50,000 contractors needed for the day-to-day operation of the Games.
		According to the report, the overall cost of the Olympics would be at least $5.9 billion with estimated revenue from corporate sponsorship, media rights, marketing, ticketing and private sector investments raising only $3.6 billion.
		The Olympic Games—a celebration of the highest achievements in human athleticism—like other arenas of human activity under capitalism has become a gigantic milking cow for corporate sponsors, the media and others.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2000/mar2000/olym-m03.shtml (1164 words)

	Home page — latest news and sports stories from Sydney
		Sydney has fired the starting gun in a critical race against sophisticated doping practices.
		As Sydney says farewell, a far darker chapter in Olympic history will come to a much quieter close, one that will leave 384 medals forever tainted.
		The Sydney Olympics have not perhaps made the same impact in the United States as they have almost everywhere else.
	www.times-olympics.co.uk (361 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Index
		The U.S. boxing team, which arrived in Sydney hoping to reverse its recent Olympic fortunes, wound up without a single gold medal for the first time since London in 1948.
		Armenian lifter Ashot Danielyan was stripped of his bronze medal after a positive test for the steroid nandrolone, becoming the fourth weightlifter to test positive in the Summer Games.
		The Sydney Olympics drew to a close after 17 days, and were donned the "best ever" by IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00 (426 words)

	OLYMPIC STATISTICS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The ranking is performed neither according to gold medal nor medal total but according to points (3 points for a gold, 2 for a silver and 1 for a bronze).
		In some cases, you will find "half medals": in the early Olympics, some people had unprecise nationality, therefore two countries shared the medal.
		It includes all Olympic results from Athens 1896 to Sydney 2000, and Chamonix 1924 to Salt Lake City 2002.
	www.darmoni.net (125 words)

	2000 OLYMPICS - SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
		To qualify for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, a team had to post a minimum of eight FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour finishes between the 1st January, 1999 through to 15th August, 2000.
		The most teams a nation could qualify for Sydney is two per gender, except the host Australia, who can be represented by three teams in each competition.
		No Olympic Games has ever sold out and there are strict quotas for ticket sales in other countries through their National Olympic Committees (NOCs).
	www.volleyball.org /olympics/olympics2000.html (369 words)

	Olympic Failure: A Case for Making the Web Accessible (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In August 2000 the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games was found to have engaged in unlawful conduct by providing a web site which was to a significant extent inaccessible to the blind.
		The details of the case and its global implications for government policy and commercial practice on the Internet is examined by one of the expert witnesses who gave evidence to the commission.
		As the results tables were not yet on the website (the Olympic Games not having yet commenced) a sample page, in electronic format, of the proposed results table was also requested.
	www.tomw.net.au /2001/bat2001.html (5665 words)

	Australian Olympics, 2000
		The Sydney Olympics are to go out with a bang - a low-flying fighter bomber is to ignite a massive plume of flame and one million people will be treated to one of the world's most spectacular firework displays.
		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.
		Students aged from 10 to 16 years, are asked to contact and interview athletes, officials or spectators from their home town who have participated in an Olympics, and complete a report.
	www.gigglepotz.com /ausolympics.htm (702 words)

	Olympics On-Line Theme Unit Page 1
		The first recorded Olympic Games took place almost 3,000 years ago in ancient Greece, in a rural area called Olympia.
		As a class, discuss what factors in addition to climate would need to taken into account for a city that hosts the Olympic Games (facilities for the sports events, accommodations for the athletes — or the room to build them — accommodations for the spectators, food for everyone, local transportation, long-distance transportation, and so on).
		Divide your class into seven small groups to trace the journeys of Olympic athletes from their hometowns to Sydney.
	teacher.scholastic.com /lessonrepro/lessonplans/theme/olympics01.htm (680 words)

	Ruling may rob Johnson of Sydney gold - Olympics - www.smh.com.au
		Young was the American athlete whose identity was concealed by US authorities after he had tested positive to the steroid nandrolone in 1999, and who competed in two Sydney relay heats and received a gold medal.
		Other members of that relay squad have been embroiled in recent drugs controversies, which could also affect the Sydney Games result if it is proved that drugs were involved at the time.
		Meanwhile, the Olympic futures of Australia's top sprinters Matt Shirvington and Patrick Johnson are in doubt because of poor form on the track.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/06/30/1088488029574.html (599 words)

	Australia: The Games and the New Millennium
		The Sydney 2000 Olympic Games emblem aims to show people just what Sydney is like - a modern city on the edge of an ancient land and its role as host city of the Games.
		Named for the new millennium, she personifies Sydney's hope and optimism at the dawning of the year 2000.
		Olly (as in Olympic), is a kookaburra and he lives in the tallest tree in Millennium Park.
	www.rochedalss.qld.edu.au /olympics/mascots.htm (974 words)

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