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The People's Republic of China competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. The team excluded athletes from the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong, after the territory's return to Chinese rule in 1997, and which competed separately as Hong Kong, China. 271 competitors, 91 men and 180 women, took part in 163 events in 28 ...
Sydney 2000 was branded with the motto "The Games of the New Millennium" [6] In regards to the protocol of the ceremony, there had been incremental changes in the ceremonies format after 1960 Summer Olympics where the Olympic Anthem was readopted, and with the symbolic release of doves starting at 1994 Winter Olympics. [12]
The cost for Sydney 2000 compares with a cost of US$4.6 billion for Rio 2016, US$40–44 billion for Beijing 2008, and US$51 billion for Sochi 2014, the most expensive Olympics in history. The average cost for the Summer Games since 1960 is US$5.2 billion, average cost overrun is 176%.
On 17 January 2013, American cyclist Lance Armstrong was stripped of his bronze medal from the 2000 Summer Olympics by the IOC after his confession of being involved in using doping. [39] The IOC also decided not to award Spanish cyclist Abraham Olano the bronze medal, as he had also tested positive for doping, back in 1998.
China: 6.64 Maho Hanaoka Japan: 6.61 Triple jump details: Yelena Parfenova Kazakhstan: 14.08 Miao Chunqing China: 14.01 Maho Hanaoka Japan: 13.67 Shot put details: Nada Kawar Jordan: 17.46 Chinatsu Mori Japan: 16.38 Cho Jin-Sook South Korea: 15.38 Discus throw details: Neelam Jaswant Singh India: 60.75 Cao Qi China: 58.71 Li Yanfeng China: 57. ...
The 2000 Summer Olympics were held in Sydney, Australia, from 15 September to 1 October 2000. 10,651 athletes from 199 National Olympic Committees (NOC) countries participated. The competition was made up of 300 events in 28 sports were held; 165 events were opened to men, 127 were opened to women and 10 were mixed events.
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.
China: Li Feng-ying Chinese Taipei: Winarni Binti Slamet Indonesia: 58 kg details: Soraya Jiménez Mexico: Ri Song-hui North Korea: Khassaraporn Suta Thailand: 63 kg details: Chen Xiaomin China: Valentina Popova Russia: Ioanna Chatziioannou Greece: 69 kg details: Lin Weining China: Erzsébet Márkus Hungary: Karnam Malleswari India: 75 kg details