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SYDNEY 2000 OLYMPICS

Friday 15 September to Sunday 1 October, 2000

10,200 athletes and 5,100 officials

15,000 accredited media, and worldwide television audience of 3.5 billion

1.6 million additional tourists between 1997 - 2004, generating an extra $6.1 billion in tourist export earnings (Tourism Forecasting Council, 1998).

28 sports including aquatics (diving, swimming, synchronized swimming, water polo), archery, athletics, badminton, baseball, basketball, canoe/kayak (slalom, sprint), cycling (mountain bike, road, track), equestrian (three-day event, jumping, dressage), fencing, football, gymnastics (artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, trampolining), handball, hockey, judo, modern pentathlon, rowing, sailing, shooting, softball, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, triathlon, volleyball (volleyball, beach volleyball), weightlifting, wrestling (freestyle, greco-roman).

Olympic Games tickets will be made available to Australians from 30 May, 1999.

Tickets on offer are very affordable - 70% are $60 or less, 80% are less than $100.

5 million tickets will be available through public offer to Australians, more per capita than any other host nation has made available to its citizens.

Olympic Games ticket holders will receive free travel on the Olympic transport system on the day of the event until 4.00am the next day. This includes Sydney metropolitan stations and extends to key regional centres including: Newcastle, Dungog and Scone in the Hunter Valley; Port Kembla and Nowra in the south; Goulburn to the south west; and through the Blue Mountains to Bathurst.

The Sydney 2000 Olympic Mascots are Syd the platypus, Millie the echidna and Olly the kookaburra.

SOCOG will be recruiting 40 000 Games volunteers, including a team of Traveland volunteers to help with the staging of the Olympic Games.

The majority of venues will be located at Sydney Olympic Park at Homebush Bay.

The Sydney Olympic Stadium at Sydney Olympic Park will seat 110,000 people - the biggest Olympic Stadium in history.

The other major venue precinct is the Sydney Harbour precinct, which includes City Centre (triathlon), Darling Harbour (boxing, fencing, judo, volleyball, weightlifting, wrestling), Moore Park (football preliminaries, cycling road race), Rushcutters Bay (sailing),and Bondi Beach (beach volleyball).

Other venues are Bankstown (cycling-track), Blacktown (baseball and softball), Cecil Park (shooting), Fairfield (cycling - mountain bike), Penrith Lakes (canoe/kayak and rowing), Horsley Park (equestrian), Ryde (water polo venue 2) and Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne and Adelaide (football - preliminaries).


Sydney 2000 Olympic Games information
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