Australia lights Olympic cauldron 20 years after Sydney Games

Australia ignited the 2000 Sydney Olympic cauldron on Tuesday on the 20th anniversary of the Games' opening ceremony as athletes and organisers looked back in pride at the nation's success in hosting ...
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Sydney 2000's backstage maneuverings surface

Australia's biggest city clinched the rights to host the Olympics in September 1993 in a historic vote in Monte Carlo, where John Coates, then head ...

Sydney Games' impact on Paralympic athletes Kurt Fearnley, Louise Sauvage and Lisa Llorens

Lighting the cauldron at the opening ceremony of the Sydney Paralympics was the role of a lifetime for Louise Sauvage.It was such a big secret that she could not even tell her manager or family about ...
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IOC president Coventry calls Sydney 2000 "spark" of her Olympic journey

Twenty-five years on from her Olympic debut, International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Kirsty Coventry recalled her Olympic journey that started with the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. “I was 16 ...

Future Brisbane: How SEQ population will compare to Sydney

South East Queensland is being urged to present itself to the world as simply “Brisbane” to maximise the global opportunity ...