2000 Summer Olympics (also known as the 2000 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also referred to as Sydney 2000 The Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium) were an international multi-sport event which took place between 15 September and 1 October, 2000 at Sydney, Australia. This was the second time that Summer Olympics were held in Australia and the Southern Hemisphere, the first was held in Melbourne in 1956.
Sydney was chosen as the venue for The 2000 Games in 1993. Participants from 199 nations participated during this year’s 2000 Games, which were the first time that Sydney had more than 300 events in the official sporting program. The Games cost was estimated at A$6.6 billion. The 2000 Games were the final Olympic Games under the IOC presidency of Juan Antonio Samaranch before the transition as his replacement Jacques Rogge. It was the 2000 Games were the last of two successive Summer Olympics to be held in a predominantly English-speaking region in the aftermath of in 1996’s Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.
The 2000 Games received universal acclaim as did the organisation and volunteers, the sportsmanship as well as the Australian public being celebrated by world’s media. Bill Bryson of The Times described Sydney’s Sydney Games “one of the most successful events on the world stage” and said the event “couldn’t be better”. James Mossop of the Electronic Telegraph said that Sydney’s Games “such a success that any city considering bidding for future Olympics must be wondering how it can reach the standards set by Sydney” as well as Jack Todd of the Montreal Gazette advised to the “IOC should not be able to continue while they are ahead. Recognize that there isn’t going to be an even more successful Olympic Games, and be done with it” because “Sydney was exceptional and one of the top”. The games were the basis for London’s successful bid to host 2012’s 2012 Olympic Games in 2005 In getting ready to host this year’s 2012 Games, Lord Coe declared the 2000 Games the “benchmark for the spirit of the Games, unquestionably” while acknowledging that the London organizing committee “attempted in a number of ways to emulate what the Sydney Organising Committee did.” The final score of medals of the 2000 Summer Olympics was led by the United States, followed by Russia and China and the hosts Australia in fourth place overall.
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Cameroon, Colombia, Latvia, Mozambique and Slovenia won gold medals to the very first time they have won a gold medal in their Olympic history, and Barbados, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Saudi Arabia and Vietnam were awarded their first Olympic medals.
Australia is scheduled to host Australia’s Summer Olympics again in 2032 in Brisbane, Queensland making it the first Oceanian nation hosting the Olympics three times.
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2000 Summer Olympics Sports Programme
- Aquatics
- Diving (8)
- Swimming (32)
- Synchronized swimming (2)
- Water polo (2)
- Archery (4)
- Athletics (46)
- Badminton (5)
- Baseball (1)
- Basketball (2)
- Boxing (12)
- Canoeing
- Sprint (12)
- Slalom (4)
- Cycling
- Road (4)
- Track (12)
- Mountain biking (2)
- Equestrian
- Dressage (2)
- Eventing (2)
- Show jumping (2)
- Fencing (10)
- Field hockey (2)
- Football (2)
- Gymnastics
- Artistic (14)
- Rhythmic (2)
- Trampoline (2)
- Handball (2)
- Judo (14)
- Modern pentathlon (2)
- Rowing (14)
- Sailing (11)
- Shooting (17)
- Softball (1)
- Table tennis (4)
- Taekwondo (8)
- Tennis (4)
- Triathlon (2)
- Volleyball
- Volleyball (2)
- Beach volleyball (2)
- Weightlifting (15)
- Wrestling
- Freestyle (8)
- Greco-Roman (8)
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