The 2000 Summer Olympics were held in Sydney, Australia from September 15th to October 1st. Some key events included Cathy Freeman of Australia lighting the Olympic torch to open the Games and the US softball team defeating teams they had previously lost to. New sports added were triathlon and taekwondo. Records were set such as a time of 3:32.07 in the men's 1500m race.

1. Sydney 2000
Event Highlights Works Cited
Summer Olympics
Records Works Cited
 1500m men: 3’32.07”  http://www.olympic.org/sydney-
2000-summer-olympics September 15, 2000– October 1, 2000
Highlights
 The US softball team beat every
team that they lost against in  http://www.about-australia.com/
before. facts/
 Cathy Freeman lit the Olympic
torch  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Sydney
Firsts
 Triathlon and taekwondo were
two new this year to the Olym-
pics.
Cathy Freeman Lighting the
torch .

2. Host City & Country About the Emblem and
Medals Designed for these
Athletes
games
Sydney Australia
Simon Fairweather
Emblem
This represents the figure of
an athlete using the shapes
and colors of Australia. The
boomerangs represent the
Gold medal winner in the Individual
sun and rocks. The blue flash
fita olympic round 70m men
is the silhouette of the Syd-
Country: Australia ney Opera House and it
leads into a trail of smoke
from an Olympic torch.
Pauline Elaine Davis
About the Host City and
Country
Medal
 Australia is the sixth largest
The medal has the Victorian
nation Goddess holding a winner’s
Gold medal winner in the 200m  Australia is the flattest conti- crown. On the back there is
the Sydney Opera House, the
women. nent on the Earth Olympic torch, and the Olym-
Country: Bahamas  Australia is the driest inhab- pic rings.
ited continent on Earth
 Sydney is the most popu-
Antonio Rossi lous city in all of Australia
 Sydney is the capitol of the Mascots
state New South Wales
 Inhabitants in Sydney are
called Sydneysiders
Gold medal winner in K-2 1000m kayak
double men
Country: Italy