OLYMPICS GAMES SYDNEY 2000 SIDNEY 2000 The 2000

OLYMPICS GAMES SYDNEY 2000

- SIDNEY 2000 The 2000 Olympics Games were held in Sydney, Australia from 15 September to 1 October 2000. Attended by 10, 651 athletes (6582 men and 4, 069 women)from 199 countries competing in 28 sports and 300 specialties. . Australia had previously hosted the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. Sydney defeated the cities of Beijing, Berlin, Istanbul and Manchester in the choice of hosting the Olympics.

-OLYMPIC TORCH: The Olympic Torch of these games in nearly four months visiting 12 states in Oceania, New Zealand across the geography of Australia, covering over 27, 000 km only in the latter country. In total, about 45, 000 carriers (800 in Greece, 1, 500 in Oceania and New Zealand 11, 000 in Australia). The Olympic flame was lit in Olympia May 11. On May 22 arrives on the island of Guam in the South Pacific to take a tour of 12 states of Oceania. On June 5 is received in the land of New Zealand three days visiting five of the most important cities in the country. The flame arrived in Australia was under the natural monument of Mount Aboriginal Uluru in the heart of the country, the early hours of June 8 and was received with enthusiasm by a grand ceremony with singing. On September 15 arrived on time to the Olympic Stadium and the last relay, Aboriginal athlete Cathy Freeman, lit the cauldron installed on a water bed kicking off this edition of the Olympic Games.

-EVENTS: * Opening Ceremony: The Opening Ceremony of Sydney 2000 Olympic Games was held in the afternoon of Friday, September 15, 2000, and it showed icons of Australian culture from sea creatures to local flora and fauna. This ceremony took several parts: - Prelude - Welcome: The Opening Ceremony began with a tribute to the heritage of Australian Horse with the arrival of a lone rider, Steve Jefferys, riding bucking horse Ammo. - Anthem: The Australian national anthem Advance Australia Fair was sung by Julie Anthony and Human Nature. This is seen as the world's largest tribute to a national anthem in the history of the opening ceremonies of the Olympics. - The Dream of the Deep Sea - The Arousal - The Nature - Tin Symphony

THE OPENING CEREMONY It is said that this opening ceremony was the most beautiful of all the Olympic games

- MORE EVENTS: * During the Opening Ceremony of the Games, the athlete Cathy Freeman became the first native light the Olympic flame and the second woman to do so, after the Mexican Enriqueta Basilio. * For the first time, North Korea and South Korea marched under one flag during the Opening Ceremony, which was white with the territory of the peninsula in blue. * The Australian Ian Thorpe, 37 years old, won ten gold medals and broke the mark of 550 m freestyle swimming. * The Romanian Andreea Raducan became the first gymnast to lose a medal because of doping. * Eric Moussambani, swimmer Guinean competing in the 100 m freestyle heats, swam alone test, due to the disqualification of his rivals for false start, setting a time of 1 minute 52. 72 seconds.

Medals of Sydney 2000 Countries Gold Silver 1 United States 36 24 31 91 2 Russia 32 28 28 88 3 China 28 16 15 59 4 Australia 16 25 17 58 5 Germany 13 17 26 56 6 France 13 14 11 38 7 Italy 13 8 13 34 8 Netherlands 12 9 4 25 9 Cuba 11 11 7 29 Great Britain 11 10 7 28 10 Bronze Total

* Athletes and teams more named - Ian Thorpe: It is a freestyle swimmer with three gold medals and two silver was the most successful athlete at the Olympic Games of 2000. - Simon Whitfield: As a kid playing soccer, but at age 11 began triathlon, honing their competitive skills. Won a gold medal in triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. - Leontien van Moorsel: set a world record in the semifinals of the same event for women. -Inge de Bruijn: set a new world record, beating his own time in the 100 butterfly final m to win by more than one second. - In the basket: The U. S. A of Vince Carter made one of the most famous dunks in basketball history. After getting the ball in a robbery, Carter jumped up, spread her legs in the air, scraped Weis's head on the road. The French media called this, I kill de la mort ("the mate of death").

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- Archery Athletics Baseball Basketball Badminton Boxing Canoe / Kayak Cycling Diving Equestrian Fencing Football Gymnastics Handball Hockey Judo Modern Pentathlon - Rowing Navigation Shot Softball Swimming Synchronized Swimming Table tennis Taekwondo Tennis Triathlon Volleyball Water polo Weightlifting Fight

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