History+of+the+Olympics

Australia at the Olympics
The olympics years have been started below, there a lot more to come so feel free to add them. Under each year lets compile some facts, such as host city, host country, how many gold/silver/bronze medals Australia won, where Australia finished on the medal tally, who was the best performing Australian, etc.

It's up to you what information is included. Remember you can add to someone else's work too if you have some more facts to contribute. You don't have to start at the top and work your way down, you choose where you want to begin.

As you add something please include your first name and school in brackets at the end of the information so we know who is doing all the hard work.

I've started in 1976 because that was when i was born.

2004- ATHENS, Greece At Cobden TS we are working on a Year 8 Maths module on Graphs and have been graphing information on the Olympics. The first graph we looked at has been a Column Graph. We collected data from http://www.abc.net.au/olympics/2004. This is a graph done by Georgie in my Year 8 class. The graph is a .jpg image that was captured using "printscreen" of the original graph. //Siggi Macleod, Cobden TS, 7/8/2008//

2000 - SYDNEY, Australia (WEPS 3/4M) The games in Sydney were very successful for the Australian athletes. We won 16 gold medals, 25 silver medals and 17 bronze medals, a total of 58 medals. We finished 4th overall. Some of the Australia gold medalists included; Cathy Freeman, Ian Thorpe, Grant Hackett, Susie O'Neil, Michael Diamond. The Olympic torch was lit in a pond that had a circle to keep the flame going, It was lit by Cathy Freeman. The official mascots for the 2000 games were; Olly the kookaburra, Syd the Platypus and Millie the echidna. The Olympic torch relay visited many unique Australian landmarks including the Great Ocean Road, The Great Barrier Reef, Ayres Rock and the Sydney Harbor Bridge. It was carried by many people from all across Australia.

199 nations competed at the Sydney Olympics. There were a total of 10,651 athletes who competed - 6,582 men and 4,069 women. The Opening ceremony was held on the 15th September and the closing ceremony was held on October 1st, 2000.

1992 The summer Olympics were held in Barcelona,Spain,Europe. The first Olympic Games in three decades without a boycott was hosted by the Spanish city of Barcelona. Athletes from most of the new countries of the former Soviet Union competed as the "Unified Team" and for the first time since 1964,Germany competed as a unified country. South Africa also rejoined the Games having eliminated apartheid. Baseball, a demonstration sport in earlier Games, was added to the Olympic roster. The amateur rule that was overturned for the 1988 Olympic Games, allowed the United States to send the "Dream Team" a basketball team made up of a number of the most famous U.S. professional basketball players, to the Olympics. Gymnast Vitaly Sherbo of Belarus won six gold medals. Approximately 9,300 athletes participated, representing 169 countries. By Lewis and Daniel Weps 4c 1996 There were many places that took part in this olympics such as United States, Greece, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom and Yugslavia. There were 197 countrys competing in the Olympics. The 1996 olympics were in Atlanta. There were 10,320 athletes (6,797 men) (3,523 women) The 1996 Olympics were held from July the ninteenth to August the fourth.

The Summer Olympics were held in Montreal, Quebec which is in Canada. They ran from July 17th to August 1st.
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