Welcome to your virtual seat at the Official Website of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. The Games of the New Millennium.
It's all here: highlights, records, histories and how-tos for every sport in the Games. We have the most comprehensive on-line spectator's guide for every event, including latest news, features, history, rules, records, even a sports glossary and step-by-step technical details on all 28 sports in the Games.
Our background on the rich legacy of the Modern Olympic Games is better than ever, and includes everything you ever wanted to know about staging the Games, including detailed information on the Torch Relay, the Arts Festivals, the mascots and the buzz of the behind-the-scenes activities.
We've also got the most comprehensive guide to Sydney and the land Down Under. From the rich, Indigenous history of Australia through to the modern, fast-paced lifestyle of contemporary citydwellers, we reveal the true essence of the country that all the world will be watching come 2000.
Partners
We've got some of the best in the business:
Allsport
Allsport is among the world's premiere sports photographic agencies, with an archive of over four million images constantly updated by its team of award-winning staff photographers. Nearly half a million images are stored on the Allsport on-line digital archive and easily accessible via the web.
Allsport is the official photographer to over 40 sports governing bodies including the International Olympic Committee; the United States Olympic Committee; the British Olympic Association; the Olympic Museum in Lausanne; the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games; the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games and the Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games 2002.
The position of Allsport in the sports photography industry, together with the quality of imagery, has led to many contracts with high-profile sports clients for advertising and promotional use and the appointment of Allsport as photographers to the Worldwide Olympic Marketing Partners and Sydney 2000 Team Millenium Olympic Partners.
Allsport's customer base includes provision of content to on-line sites, major newspaper groups worldwide, magazine and book publishers, television companies, as well as commercial publishing, merchandising and advertising companies. Allsport also manages the Olympic Photographic Archive Bureau in conjunction with the IOC.
Allsport is part of Getty Images Inc, the leading international provider of visual content to both professional and consumer markets. The company uses its extensive web-technology expertise to create e-commerce enabled sites that allow customers to quickly access and purchase images.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica (Britannica.com)
Britannica.com is a free knowledge and learning center for people who seek thoughtful and engaging context to today's affairs. Through an innovative design and navigational framework, the site integrates content from the world's most respected publications to create a powerful new information service for the 21st century.
Britannica.com is the only search engine that synthesizes results from editorially-reviewed Websites and world-renowned magazines with the complete, updated Encyclopaedia Britannica, the oldest and largest reference work in the English language. These databases combine to provide unparalleled depth, authority, accuracy, and timeliness. With daily information such as world news headlines, market data, sports scores, and weather forecasts, Britannica.com is the ideal Internet gateway for discerning users.
The Explore section in Britannica.com includes 15 channels, such as Science, Arts, History, and Health. These channels offer an accessible mix of news and feature content, along with navigation into a comprehensive outline of the Web's best sites. Britannica.com also includes Spotlight features, special in-depth multimedia presentations that use exciting new Web technology to create compelling and original online knowledge experiences.
Other features in the Britannica.com experience include free email, so that registered users can send and receive email from any Internet connection in the world; email newsletters, which offer a fun-to-read digest of Britannica.com features; and the Britannica Store, with a wide selection of knowledge and learning products. Future releases of Britannica.com will include extensive customisation and personalisation tools; additional authoritative information databases; note-taking tools, and much more.
Britannica.com invites its users to explore a world of new ideas and new connections as it revolutionizes the Web as an information medium.
Bud Greenspan
To some he is the poet laureate of the Olympics, and the "Official Keeper of the Olympic Flame." To others, he is the man with the bald pate and trademark glasses
. . . a constant presence at every Olympic Games for the past four decades.
With an exceptional gift for personal storytelling, a matchless eye for camera angle and location, and above all, a complete and total commitment to truth, Bud Greenspan has magically captured all that is good in the Olympic Games for nearly 40 years. In September of 2000 he and a crew of 100 people will shoot the 17 days of the Sydney Olympics for his sixth official film.
Greenspan has been called the foremost writer, producer and director of sports films and one of the world's leading sports historians. He has been bestowed with virtually every accolade a filmmaker can receive: six Emmy Awards; the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Director's Guild of America; and a Peabody Award America's highest honor paid to film and television producers.
His film credits are numerous, including five Olympic Official Films: 16 Days of Glory/ Los Angeles (1984); Calgary (1988); Lillehammer (1994); Atlanta's Olympic Glory (1996); and Nagano '98 Olympics: Stories of Honor and Glory (1998).
Other productions include Triumph and Tragedy: The 1972 Munich Games; The Measure of Greatness, about timing at the Olympics; Jesse Owens Returns to Berlin; and Time Capsule: The 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.
His Olympic Dream followed teenaged athletes from around the world as they trained for the 1988 Seoul Olympics, and his critically acclaimed motion picture-for-television Wilma, based on the life of American Wilma Rudolph, was among the highest rated films of the 1977 season.
Just like the Olympics, Bud Greenspan's cinematic vision is deeply rooted in classicism...the belief that good storytelling along with powerful imagery will always endure over the sensational and often superficial world of television today.
The words of IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch perhaps best express what Bud Greenspan means to the Olympic movement: "For more than four decades Bud Greenspan has chronicled the history of the Olympic movement...keeping alive the flame of Olympism for thousands of athletes and millions of spectators today and for future generations.
"He has created intimate portrayals of young men and women as athletes, and more importantly as human beings who strive to overcome personal challenges, bringing honour to themselves, their country and most importantly, honour to us all.
"It was in the city of Rome in 1985, after the premiere showing of his film 16 Days of Glory / Los Angeles, his five-hour Official Film of the 1984 Olympics, that I presented to Bud Greenspan the Olympic Order for his outstanding achievements and service to the Olympic Movement.
"Mr. Greenspan has been called the foremost producer, writer and director of Olympic films; more than that, he is an everlasting friend of the Olympic family."
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Hyro.com
There are no rules in the new media. Knowledge and experience essential
ingredients, but not enough without a great big serving of imagination.
New media developer Hyro.com is big enough to bring you the most innovative designers, programmers, writers, photographers and creative
directors from all over the globe. And Hyro.com is small and supple enough
to evolve with the best of new technologies, unlimited by traditional ways
of presenting entertainment and information.
Hyro.com's directors are Claes Loberg who, with great design and
programming skills and a huge imagination, has worked creatively with
Internet technology since its inception, and Kevin Cook, who has worked in
corporate sales and marketing for over 20 years and still manages to think
outside the square.
Hyro.com mixes aspects of magazine, television, conversation, filing
cabinet, satellite and shop front to bring you a truly new media.
By creating sites that look fantastic and communicate well, Hyro.com
translates all that techno-speak to real people and real businesses.
Hyro.com has created a number of self-funded and joint venture projects
including online travel, sport and lifestyle "magazines." Our clients and
partners include Qantas, the International Olympic Committee, American
Express, Telstra and the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race.
One of Hyro.com's flagship projects is VRLX, a virtual reality luxury
"magazine." VRLX is an online tour of the most elegant, exotic destinations
on earth. This award-winning site displays the best design and technology
on the Internet and takes you to a sensuous, irresistible world where
plain and mundane have no meaning. Check out VRLX, the pinnacle
of luxury at www.vrlx.com.
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Sport the Library
Some people say that image IS everything. When it comes to sport, at Sport the Library, we have images FOR everything.
Our team of photographers pride themselves in capturing the essence of sport. Images that, without words, speak of a lifetime commitment to excellence. Images of triumph and tragedy, of power and pain, helping us to understand words like style, poise and elegance.
We were there! Grasping these significant sporting moments on film. Moments that thrill, motivate, inspire and captivate our genuine passion for sport.
We look forward to the challenge of providing coverage for the most prestigious events on each year's sporting calendar including the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games and the 1999-2000 pre-Olympic test events.
Sport the library also provides comprehensive coverage of action and personalities in over 100 sports and leisure activities throughout the world.
We are the official photographers to the Australian Olympic Team, the Australian Paralympic Team and Australian Swimming, Cycling Australia and the National Basketball League, among other Australian and international sporting bodies.
From our extensive library of images, we can supply a selection to complete your advertising, design or promotional needs. Our research staff is trained to deal with your image requests intelligently and imaginatively. Simply supply them with a specific request, or just suggest the subject, mood, shape or target audience and they will send you a selection from which to choose.
For further information on how Sport the Library can assist you in the way of sporting or adventure images, please make contact with us at:
40 Stokes Street
Port Melbourne, Victoria 3207
AUSTRALIA
www.sportlibrary.com.au
aus.sport@sportlibrary.com.au
Phone +61 3 9646 9050
Fax +61 3 9646 9052
Wildlight
Wildlight is an Australian Photo Agency and Stock Library founded in 1985 and brings together Australia's best photographers in a network covering the continent. Their work is highly acclaimed and is collected by public galleries and private collections around the world.
Wildlight's photographers shoot in Australia, South East Asia, the South Pacific and New Zealand. Services provided by the agency include commissioned assignments for editorial, books, magazines, company reports, and film specials. Wildlight also has an extensive stock library with subjects ranging from real people, industry, landscapes and everything in between. Based in Sydney, Wildlight's staff provide comprehensive photo research services and co-ordinate large photo shoots across Australia. The agency has produced a selection of pictorial books on Australia and offers original colour and black & white prints signed by the photographer.
Wildlight works with affiliated agencies in Hamburg, Tokyo, Paris and Milan, and has a large national and international clientele who come to us for what is undeniably Australia.
Photographers represented by Wildlight include Frances Andrijich, Ben Bohane, Jason Busch, Rennie Ellis, Richard Glover, Lorrie Graham, Greg Hard, Ross Isaacs, Carolyn Johns, Tom Keating, Mark Lang, David Moore, Graham Monro, Nolen Oayda, David Dare Parker, Philip Quirk, Andrew Rankin, Sandy Scheltema, Lindsay Stepanow, Liz Thompson, Grenville Turner, Milton Wordley, and Tony Yeates.
To view images and additional information visit Wildlight at www.wildlight.com.au.
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