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unusual facts about Sydney Olympics



Gold Fever

Gold Fever was the name of a BBC documentary, shown in August 2000, which followed Steve Redgrave and his British rowing coxless four teammates Matthew Pinsent, Tim Foster and James Cracknell in the years leading up to the Sydney Olympics, where Redgrave was looking to claim his fifth consecutive gold medal.

L'Imprudence

For instance, Bashung said he composed the song "Dans la foulée" ("Following") after the "media backlash against Marie-Josée Pérec in Australia" during the Sydney Olympics when the athlete, because of pressure and a surge of paranoia, fled the competition.

Philip Cox

Professor Philip Cox designed many of the city's iconic buildings including a number of the buildings used for the Sydney Olympics, the Australian National Maritime Museum at Darling Harbour and the Sydney Football Stadium.

Ric Charlesworth

During this time they won the Champion's Trophy in 1993 (Amsterdam), 1995 (Mar del Plata), 1997 (Berlin) and 1999 (Brisbane), the World Hockey Cup in 1994 (Dublin) and 1998 (Netherlands) and were gold medallists in the Atlanta Olympics in 1996 and Sydney Olympics in 2000 and 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur.

Table Tennis Victoria

At the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games Victoria's Miao Miao earned fifth place and took Silver at the 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games.


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Ann Sanders

She was also involved in Federal and State election coverages and the Sydney Olympics in 2000 for Seven News.

Carleton Place

Andrew Willows, Sprint Kayak, 2 time Olympian, 2004 Sydney Olympics(k-4 1000m), 2008 Beijing Olympics(k-2 500m)

Chris Huffins

At the Sydney Olympics, Huffins performed consistently, and after the first nine events, including the javelin, he led eventual winner Erki Nool by 6 points.

Fairfield, Texas

Nanceen Perry - USA Track team member for 2000 Sydney Olympics with star Marion Jones and more.

Fatema Hameed Gerashi

Francois Latil, the oldest competitor at the Sydney Olympics, while Gerashi was the youngest

Juan Ubaldo

At the Sydney Olympics 2000 he lost in the first round to local hero Richard Rowles.

No. 381 Expeditionary Combat Support Squadron RAAF

To date 381ECSS has assisted in Operations Warden/Stabilize (East Timor), Gold (Sydney Olympics), Relex (bare base activation to support maritime interdiction operations), Gaberdine (Immigration Support), Guardian (CHOGM Support), Slipper (Global War on Terrorism), Bastille and Falconer (Iraq War).

Susie O'Neill

At the 2000 Australia Trials before the Sydney Olympics, she broke the 19-year old world record of another "Madame Butterfly", Mary T. Meagher, in the 200m butterfly, but was beaten at the Sydney Games by American Misty Hyman, in an upset.

Vicente Arze

His cousin Diego Camacho played in the men’s singles tennis tournament at the 2000 Sydney Olympics .