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Sydney 2000
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The year 2000 begins...
Sydney Harbour Celebrations
Some of the different faces of the Opera House
sunset over the Sydney Harbour Bridge and The Sydney Opera House.....above...
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The Sydney Harbour Bridge. and Opera House on the background.
"Teach me to win if I may. If I may not win, then above all teach me to be a good loser."    unknown
The Sydney Olympic Torch has the gentle curve of a boomerang, the sails of the Opera House, and represents, Earth, Fire and Water.
The Olympic Torch arrives in Australia, at Uluru, (Ayers Rock) Nova Peris Kneebone is the first runner.
Ron Clarke, a former Olympian, lights the cauldron at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, 44yrs after he lit the cauldron at the same venue , which was the then Olympic Stadium for the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games. Inset is a picture of him lighting the cauldron at 19 yrs old.
The oldest man in Australia, at 109yrs. old, and a veteran of the campaign in Gallipoli, WWW1, walks with the torch in Bendigo, Victoria, then relaxed with a beer at the local RSL club.
Jumping for joy as the Torch reaches NSW soil for the first time, at Albury, on 14th August.
The mother flames are carefully carried down the icy Great Alpine Road, after a vehicle became stuck in the snow!! The mother flame and back up flame are carried in a miners lamp, (Davey Lamp after the man who invented it, usually used to detect methane gas in an underground mine)
Byron Bay is the most eastern part of Australia.
Bateau Bay runners
above..and right..The Area where I live...The Central Coast.60 miles north of Sydney, Runners, and Lighting of the Cauldron and the celebrations at Gosford, with Ploddy,the dinosaur from the Australian Reptile Park.
View from the top tier of Volleyball Stadium, Bondi Beach
Olympic Stadium
Opera House Showing her new colours
We are ready!!
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Cathy Freeman, After Lighting
the Olympic Flame
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