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Five cities and regions have been chosen by the IOC to host upcoming Olympic Games: the 2026 Winter Olympics will be the first Olympic Games officially shared between two host cities (Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo); Los Angeles for the 2028 Summer Olympics; the 2030 Winter Olympics will be the first Olympic Games to be hosted by a region (the ...
The final medal tally at the 2000 Summer Olympics was led by the United States, followed by Russia and China with host Australia in fourth place overall. Cameroon, Colombia, Latvia, Mozambique, and Slovenia won a gold medal for the first time in their Olympic histories, while Barbados, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan , Macedonia, Saudi Arabia, and Vietnam ...
The arena also plays host to world championship boxing and mixed martial arts (used as a venue by the UFC), and is the Sydney venue used on tours of Australia by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). [51] Blacktown Olympic Park plays host to competitions for cricket, Australian Rules football, soccer, softball, and baseball.
A Qantas Boeing 747-400 with Sydney Olympic bid stickers at Manchester Airport, circa 1993. The Australian Olympic Committee originally contemplated either Melbourne or Brisbane as their preferred bidding host cities, but Sydney gained popular favor amongst AOC President John Coates, and others, having never been a host city, as they were the last Australian bidding cities.
The following are lists of all Olympic venues, starting with the first modern Olympic Games in 1896, organized alphabetically, by sport, and by year.. As a multi-sport event, competitions held during a given Olympics usually take place in different venues located across the host city and its metropolitan area.
Selection of the host city is done at an IOC Session four to seven years prior to the tournament, in which the IOC members vote between candidate cities which have submitted bids. As of the selection of the 2016 Summer Olympics, 28 games have been held in 23 cities in 19 countries. Bids have been made by 64 cities in 34 countries.
In the worst-case scenario for host cities, Olympic venues go unused after the games -- like in Sarajevo, and even recent hosts like Beijing. Cities around the world are questioning if hosting the ...
Host nation Australia finished the Games with 58 medals overall (16 gold, 25 silver, and 17 bronze). [9] Cameroon , [ 10 ] Colombia , [ 11 ] Latvia , [ 12 ] Mozambique [ 13 ] and Slovenia won a gold medal for the first time in their Olympic histories, [ 14 ] while Vietnam , [ 15 ] Barbados , [ 16 ] Macedonia , [ 17 ] Kuwait , [ 18 ] Kyrgyzstan ...