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The Sydney Olympic Arts Festival was an arts festival that ran before and during the Olympics, from 18 August to 30 September 2000. [35] It included many performing arts events, mostly presented at the Sydney Opera House.
The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were a summer multi-sport event held in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, from 15 September to 1 October 2000. [1]
Sydney 2000 was branded with the motto "The Games of the New Millennium" [6] In regards to the protocol of the ceremony, there had been incremental changes in the ceremonies format after 1960 Summer Olympics where the Olympic Anthem was readopted, and with the symbolic release of doves starting at 1994 Winter Olympics.
27:18.20 Paul Tergat Kenya: 27:18.29 Assefa Mezgebu Ethiopia: 27:19.75 110 metres hurdles details: Anier García Cuba: 13.00 Terrence Trammell United States: 13.16 Mark Crear United States: 13.22 400 metres hurdles details: Angelo Taylor United States: 47.50 Hadi Al-Somaily Saudi Arabia: 47.53 Llewellyn Herbert South Africa: 47.81 3000 metres ...
The swimming program for 2000 was expanded from 1996, with the inclusion of the semifinal phase in each of the events except for some special cases. Long-distance swimming events (400 m freestyle, 800 m freestyle, 1500 m freestyle, and 400 m individual medley) and all relays still maintained the old format with only two phases: heats and final.
It was the 22nd edition of the men's Olympic football tournament. The final, played at the Olympic Stadium in Sydney, Australia, attracted the Olympic Games Football attendance record of 104,098 which broke the previous record of 101,799 set at the Rose Bowl for the gold medal match of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
The International Olympic Committee’s decision to strip U.S. gymnast Jordan Chiles of her floor exercise bronze medal is the sport’s highest-profile controversy since the 2000 Olympic Games in ...
The Federation Internationale de Gymnastique Executive Board announced on 27 February 2010 after an investigation into the Chinese team for violations of age rules for senior gymnastics competitions that team member Dong Fangxiao, who had been entered as 17 years old, was actually 14 at the time of the Olympics (two years below the minimum age ...