历届奥运会回顾：2000年悉尼奥运会

1993年9月23日主办城市揭晓的投票日，北京直到最后一轮投票时才以两票之差的微弱劣势负于悉尼，遗憾地未能获得本届奥运会的主办权。奥运会开幕前的圣火传递活动本次又有了新意，组织者充分了利用了水、陆、空各种运输方式，圣火甚至由潜水运动员带到了水下。

KEY FACTS

Opening date:15 September 2000

Closing date: 01 October 2000

Country of the host city: Sydney (AUS)

Sports: 28

SYDNEY  2000 Games of the XXVII Olympiad

The Sydney 2000 Games were the largest yet, with 10,651 athletes competing in 300 events. Despite their size, they were well organised, renewing faith in the Olympic Movement. Birgit Fischer earned two gold medals in Kayak to become the first woman in any sport to win medals 20 years apart. Judoka Ryoko Tamura lost in the final in both Barcelona and Atlanta, but came back to win the gold medal in Sydney. Steven Redgrave became the first rower to win gold medals at five consecutive Olympics. The US softball team won in stirring fashion, losing three games in a row and then coming back to defeat each of the teams they had lost to.

Do You Know? 朝鲜和韩国联合组队出现在奥运会的开幕式上

Korea (South Korea) and Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) marched together under the same flag.