My project is called Sydney: Olimpic Games. I have chosen this theme, because I want to know more about Olympic Games in Sydney. And it is interesting for me. I think that it will be interesting and thoughtful for you too. I think not everyone knows about Olympic Games in Sydney.
   Nowadays people need to know a little about each of the greatest events. And one of them is Sydney Olympic Games. This will help you better understand sport and make sure that it is considerable work. Most people are making a hard work and spend a lot of time to organize this event. I hope that my infornation will not be boring for you. I tried to make it rich. All information I have found on various sites in the Internet.

Day 2 – 16 September

The first medals of the Games were awarded in the women's 10 metre air rifle competition, which was won by Nancy Johnson of the United States.
The Triathlon made its Olympic debut with the women's race. Set in the surroundings of the iconic Sydney Opera House, Brigitte McMahon representing Switzerland swam, cycled and ran to the first gold medal in the sport, beating the favoured home athletes such as Michelie Jones who won silver. McMahon only passed Jones in sight of the finish line.
The first star of the Games was Ian Thorpe. The 17-year-old Australian first set a new world record in the 400 m freestyle final before competing in an exciting 4 x 100 m freestyle final. Swimming the last leg, Thorpe passed the leading Americans and arrived in a new world record time, two tenths of a second ahead of the Americans. In the same event for women, the Americans also broke the world record, finishing ahead of the Netherlands and Sweden.





Day 3 – 17 September

Canadian Simon Whitfield sprinted away in the last 100 metres of the men's triathlon, becoming the inaugural winner in the event.
On the cycling track, Robert Bartko beat fellow German Jens Lehmann in the individual pursuit, setting a new Olympic Record. Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel set a world record in the semi-finals the same event for women.
In the swimming pool, American Tom Dolan beat the world record in the 400 m medley, successfully defending the title he won in Atlanta four years prior. Dutchwoman Inge de Bruijn also clocked a new world record, beating her own time in the 100 m butterfly final to win by more than a second


Day 4 – 18 September

The main event for the Australians on the fourth day of the Games was the 200 m freestyle. Dutchman Pieter van den Hoogenband had broken the world record in the semi-finals, taking it from the new Australian hero Ian Thorpe, who came close to the world record in his semi-final heat. As the final race finished, Van den Hoogenband's time was exactly the same as in the semi-finals, finishing ahead of Thorpe by half a second.
China won the gold medal in the men's team all-around gymnastics competition, after being the runner-up in the previous two Olympics. The other medals were taken by Ukraine and Russia, respectively.
Zijlaard-van Moorsel lived up to the expectations set by her world record in cycling in the semis by winning the gold medal.

Day 7 – 21 September

Controversy erupted at the Women's Gymnastics All-Around final, when gymnast after gymnast fell on the vault. Some gymnasts were physically injured, and all were shaken, but nothing was done to try to discover the reason most gymnasts were having severe problems. Finally, in the middle of the second round, it was determined that the vault horse had been set 5 cm too low – a small amount, possibly, but to these world-class athletes, enough of a difference to have thrown off their impeccable timing to the extent that true performance was impossible. This situation led directly to the elimination of Svetlana Khorkina from consideration as the top all-around gymnast.

Day 9 – 23 September

By rowing in the winning coxless four, Steve Redgrave of Great Britain became a member of a select group who had won gold medals at five consecutive Olympics.
The swimming 4 x 100-metre medley relay of B.J. Bedford, Megan Quann (Jendrick), Jenny Thompson and Dara Torres became the first women's relay under 4-minutes, swimming 3:58 and setting a world record, claiming the gold medal for the United States.

Day 10 – 24 September

Rulon Gardner, never a NCAA champion or a world medalist, beat Alexander Karelin of Russia to win gold in the super heavyweight class, Greco-Roman wrestling. Karelin had won gold in Seoul, Barcelona and Atlanta. Before this fight he had never lost in international competition, had been unbeaten in all competitions in 13 years, and had not surrendered a point in a decade.

Day 11 – 25 September

Australian Cathy Freeman won the 400 metre final in front of a jubilant Sydney crowd at the Olympic Stadium, ahead of Lorraine Graham of Jamaica and Katharine Merry of Great Britain. Freeman's win made her the first competitor in Olympic Games history to light the Olympic Flame and then go on to win a Gold Medal.
In a men's basketball pool match between the USA and France, the USA's Vince Carter made one of the most famous dunks in basketball history. After getting the ball off a steal, the 6'6"/1.98 m Carter drove to the basket, with 7'2"/2.18 m centre Frédéric Weis in his way. Carter jumped, spread his legs in midair, scraped Weis' head on the way up, and dunked. The French media dubbed the feat le dunk de la mort ("the dunk of death").




Day 14 – 28 September

The Canadian flag at athletes' village is lowered to half-staff as Canadian athletes pay tribute to former prime minister Pierre Trudeau after hearing of his death in Montreal (Because of the time difference, it was 29 September in Sydney when Trudeau died). The Canadian flag flew at half-staff for the remainder of the Olympics, on orders from both IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch and Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy, as the state funeral did not take place until 3 October.


Day 15 – 30 September

Cameroon won a historic gold medal over Spain in the Men's Olympic Football Final at the Olympic Stadium. The game went to a penalty shootout, which was won by Cameroon 5–3.

^{Closing Ceremony}

The closing ceremony was held on October 1 at the same stadium as the opening ceremony and again at the full house. The musical part of the ceremony was attended by such famous artists as Yvonne Kenny (soprano), who sang the Olympic anthem, Kylie Minogue, Nikki Webster, the duo Savage Garden, and others.

Traditionally, athletes took part in another parade, but this time were not separated by country, and all together, symbolizing the Olympic unity.

IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch has congratulated Sydney Australia, and all the success of the Games and is traditionally called them the best in history.

The Olympic flag was lowered from the flagpole, and passing the Olympic flag was ceremoniously handed over to the mayor of Athens, the capital following the Games.

After the official announcement of the Games closed was extinguished the Olympic flame. The ceremony ended with a grand fireworks display.

The Mascots

·     Syd the Platypus — 'Syd' was named for 'Sydney', the host city for the Games

·     Millie the Echidna — 'Millie' was named for 'Millennium'

·     Olly the Kookaburra — 'Olly' was named for 'Olympics'

Gold Olympic Medal

Sydney International Aquatic Centre


Sydney Olympic Park Hockey Centre


Dunc Gray Velodrome Homebush stadium

The Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games or the Millennium Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated between 15 September and 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was the second time that the Summer Olympics were held in the Southern Hemisphere, the first one being in Melbourne in 1956, and as a result of this location and the dates, took place in early spring.

Host city selection

Sydney won the right to host the Games on 24 September 1993, after being selected over Beijing, Berlin, Istanbul and Manchester in four rounds of voting, at the 101st IOC Session in Monte Carlo, Monaco.

The main venue (Stadium Australia) host concerts and sporting events every year including the annual NRL Grand Final (Rugby League), being the home ground of two NRL teams (Bulldogs and Rabbitohs) it is used constantly in winter. The Aquatic centre became a public swimming centre. The Olympic site itself has been used for the final race of the V8 Supercars Championship (Sydney 500) since 2009.

Opening Ceremony

Opening ceremony of the XXVII Olympic Games, held September 15, 2000 at Stadium Australia Stadium in the presence of 110,000 spectators. Director of representation was the Australian Ric Birch. The ceremony was attended by 12 600 artists, the total weight of the lighting and sound equipment has exceeded 99 tons. The colorful show includes elements of the aquatic extravaganza, symbolizing the close relationship the Australian people to the sea.

The traditional parade of nations consisted of the 198 delegations at the 199 participating countries in the Olympics, North and South Korea were in the parade under the banner of a single delegation from the image contours of the Korean Peninsula. The only member of the IOC, who refused to attend the Games has become Afghanistan - the ban was imposed by the ruling Taliban.


The sounds of the Olympic anthem was raised the Olympic flag. The final chord of the ceremony was the lighting of the Olympic flame. The honor of lighting was provided by an Australian athlete Cathy Freeman.

Cathy Freeman walked across a circular pool of water and ignited the cauldron through the water, surrounding herself within a ring of fire.

Olympic Fire

Sports

For ease of understanding, the 28 sports are:
aquatics, archery, athletics, badminton, baseball, basketball, boxing, canoe/kayak, cycling equestrian, fencing, football, gymnastics, handball, hockey, judo, modern pentathlon, rowing, sailing shooting, softball, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, triathlon, volleyball, weightlifting, wrestling.

Seven of these sports have disciplines, which are separate competitions contested under the jurisdiction of a specific sport. The seven sports and their disciplines are:

Aquatics: four disciplines - diving, swimming, synchronized swimming and water polo.

Canoe/kayak: two disciplines - slalom and sprint.

Cycling: three disciplines: road, track and mountain bike.

Equestrian: three disciplines - dressage, jumping and three-day event.

Gymnastics: three disciplines - artistic, rhythmic and trampolining.

Volleyball: two disciplines - volleyball and beach volleyball (nb: volleyball discipline is played indoors. The sport and the discipline share the same name).

Wrestling: two disciplines - freestyle and Greco-Roman.

 

Sydney: Olimpic Games

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Тема: Sydney: "Olimpic Games"


      
                                                                                                         Автор работы:
                                                                                        Солнышко Арина Сергеевна
                                                                                                         Руководитель:
                                                                                        Румянцева Ирина Владимировна,
                                                                                        учитель английского языка



                                                                     Ростов-на-Дону
                                                                              2012г.