2000 Olympics

The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially known as the XXVII Olympic Games and simply known as Sydney 2000 or the New Millennium Millennium Olympic Games, was an international multi-sport event that took place between 15 September and 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. This was the second time Australia hosted the 1956 Summer Games, as well as the Southern Hemisphere, which was the first in Melbourne, Victoria. Sydney won the right to host the Games on 24 September 1993 at the 101st IOC Session held in Monte Carlo, Monaco, after being chosen in four rounds of voting over Beijing, Berlin, Istanbul and Manchester. Four years earlier, at the 1996 Summer Olympics, the Australian city of Melbourne lost out to Atlanta.[3] Beijing failed its bid to host the Sydney games in 1993, but was awarded the 2008 Summer Olympics in July 2001 after Sydney won the previous year, and the 2022 Winter Games were eventually awarded twenty-two years later in 2015. Although it's impossible to know why members of the International Olympic Committee voted for Sydney over Beijing in 1993, the campaign by Human Rights Watch to "stop Beijing" seems to have played a major role because of China's human rights record. Those in China were dissatisfied with what they viewed as U.S. interference, and the result led to increasing anti-Western feelings in China and strains in the relationship between China and America. The 2016 Oxford Olympics Survey places the budget value of the 2015-dollar Summer Olympics at $5 billion in Sydney 2000 and the real financial loss at 90%. This just includes sport-related expenses, i.e. administrative costs incurred by the organising committee for the purpose of hosting the Games, e.g. spending on transportation, transport, personnel, administration, security, housing, ceremonies and medical services, and direct building costs incurred by the host city and government or private donors to build, e.g., competition venues, t. Indirect building costs for road, rail or airport infrastructure, hotel upgrades or other business enhancements are not used in planning for the Games, nor are they directly related to the Games. The Sydney 2000 prediction is comparable to a loss of US$ 4.6 billion in Rio 2016, US$ 40-44 billion in Beijing 2008 and US$ 51 billion in Sochi 2014, the most costly Olympics in history. The cumulative cost of the Summer Games since 1960 is US$ 5.2 billion, with a gross cost overrun of 176 per cent. The bid logo was designed by architect and designer Michael Bryce and inspired the vivid, elegant image of the Sydney Opera House. The official symbol – also known as the "Millennium Man" – took the image of the bid logo and combined it to create a torchbearer with a stylised picture of a runner in motion; formed by two tiny yellow arms boomerangs and a bigger red leg boomerang. The Olympic torch is represented by a torrent of blue haze, revealing the landmark towers of the Sydney Opera House. The design contract for the new logo, as well as all other facets of the Olympic Games ' visual branding image, was awarded to Melbourne graphic company FHA Image Design. Sydney Olympics corporate identity scheme officially initiated in 1993. The official mascots chosen for the 2000 Summer Olympics were Syd the platypus, Millie the echidna, and Olly the kookaburra, designed by Matthew Hattan and Jozef Szekeres and called in response to Murray's initial SOCOG suggestion after prominent Australian athletes by Philip Sheldon of agency Weekes Morris Osborn. The bronze medals were made from Australian 1 cent for the 2000 Olympics and 2 cent melted down coins-which had been removed from circulation since 1992. Grevillea baileyana flowers, also known as the white oak, were among the bouquets handed out to award winners.