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