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Olympic Games 2000 The
fascination goes on
Table of content
1.Opening ceremony
2.Olympic village
3.Highlights
4.Sports
View of Sydney
Opening ceremony
•Lighting the Olympic Flame by: Cathy Freeman (athletics)• symbolized desire, to reconsiliate people of Australia
•Olympic Oath by: Rechelle Hawkes (hockey)• Official Oath by: Peter Kerr (water polo) • Official opening of the Games by: Sir William Deane, Governor General of Australia
Opening ceremony
At the beginning a little view on Sydney
Olympic village
Stadiun / Sydney
Olympic village
The Sydney Olympic Stadium "looks like a Pringles potato chip, does not break new ground, and is not iconic enough." - Philip Cox
Stadium Australian in
Sydney
Designed by Bligh Voller
Nied with the London-based
Lobb Partnership
Stadiun / Sydney
Sports
AquaticsArcheryAthleticsBadmintonBaseballBasketballBoxingCanoe / kayakCyclingEquestrian
FencingFootballGymnasticsHandballHockeyJudoModern PentathlonRowingSailing
ShootingSoftballTable TennisTaekwondoTennisTriathlonVolleyballWeightliftingWrestling
Athletics
Olympic sport since 1896
• also called track and field
• running faster, jumping higher and throwing further
• one of the most popular Olympic sports
Basketball
Olympic sport since 1936
Highlights
THE 17-YEAR-OLD HERO
• Ian Thorpe (AUS-swimming)
• 17 years old,
• won the gold medal in the 400m freestyle
• won the 4x100m freestyle
• another gold medal with the 4x200m freestyle with Australian relay team
• silver medal in the 200m freestyle
• Marion Jones (USA-athletics)
• first woman winning five medals in athletics in the same Olympics
• began with a crushing victory in the 100m
• scored an easy win in the 200m
• won the bronze in the long jump & the 4x100m relay,
• ran for the 4x400m relay squad, won the gold medal
FIVE MEDALS AT ONE OLYMPICS
DOUILLET WINS AGAIN
• David Douillet (FRA-judo)
• had shoulder and back problems which kept him away from the tatamis for more than a year
• won his second consecutive Olympic title
• beating Shinichi Shinohara (JPN) at the end of an eventful final
Last Impressions
A Presentation by Roland Peyerl and
Marcel Schöne
Thanks for your attention !
© Marcel Schöne