2000 Summer Olympics torch relay - Wikipedia
The 2000 Summer Olympics torch relay was the transferral of the Olympic Flame to Sydney, Australia, that built up to the 2000 Summer Olympics. The torch tavelled to various island nations as part of a tour of Oceania before beginning an extensive journey around Australia.
1956 Olympic flame hoax - Wikipedia
The 1956 Olympic flame hoax was an incident in which Barry Larkin, a veterinary student at the University of Sydney, ran with a homemade torch and fooled spectators, including a police escort and the Lord Mayor of Sydney, into thinking he was the torchbearer of the Olympic flame.
Sydney 2000 Olympic Torch Relay - Highlights
On 27 June 2000, the flame was taken on an underwater journey of 2 minutes 40 seconds at the Great Barrier Reef, not far from Cairns. A flare system, burning at 2,000°C, maintained the flame and made it visible underwater.
List of torchbearers who have lit the Olympic cauldron
List of torchbearers who have lit the Olympic cauldron. Dilnigar Ilhamjan and Zhao Jiawen lit the cauldron at the Winter Olympics in Beijing in 2022. The tradition of carrying the Olympic flame from Olympia, Greece, the birthplace of the Ancient Olympic Games, to the host city of the modern Olympic Games via a torch relay was first introduced ...
Torch Olympic Games 2000 Sydney - Olympic Museum
In 2000, as the Olympic flame travelled first through Greece, then through Oceania and finally around Australia, athletes across the world were beginning to make their way to Sydney for training and to celebrate the Games of the XXVII Olympiad.
Olympic Flame - The Amazing Story of the Olympic Flame
On the day of the Opening Ceremony, the flame was ferried from Tower Bridge to the Olympic Stadium byspeedboat, with David Beckham and the young footballer Jade Bailey clutching the torch, which they then passed onto five-time Olympic rowing champion Sir Steven Redgrave.
The Sydney 2000 Olympic torch relay captured my imagination — and …
Sep 15, 2020 — The Olympic flame was lit by the rays of the sun in Olympia, Greece, on May 10, 2000. It made its way to Athens before beginning its four-month journey to Sydney. It was the 15th time an Olympic torch relay had taken place, and it was the longest ever — the flame would travel some 36,000 kilometres.
Sydney 2000 Olympic Games - Olympic Flame & Opening Ceremony
📲 Subscribe to @olympics: http://oly.ch/Subscribe In the first part of our look back at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games we relive the journey of the Olympic ...
How Sydney broke through cynism & learned to love the Games
Sep 25, 2000 — Cathy Freeman, the 400-meter world champion, took the torch, climbed a set of stairs and stepped into a pool beside a waterfall cascading from the top of the stadium's second tier. She bent and...
Sydney 2000 Torch Lighting Ceremony: Part 1 - YouTube
The torch that carried the flame to the Sydney Olympics was lit on 10 May, 2000 in this ceremony in the ancient birthplace of the games, with in the grounds of the Temple of Hera ruins.