Australia Gets Set to Go for the 2000 Olympics.SYDNEY Sydney, city, Australia Sydney, city (1991 pop. 3,097,956), capital of New South Wales, SE Australia, surrounding Port Jackson inlet on the Pacific Ocean. Sydney is Australia's largest city, chief port, and main cultural and industrial center. , Australia, Sept. 14--Next September, when the 2000 Summer Games This article is about the Epyx video game series. For the international multi-sport event, see Summer Olympic Games. Summer Games is a sports video game developed by Epyx and released by U.S. Gold based on sports featured in the Summer Olympic Games. , the largest event in the history of sports, get under way here, billions of dollars, national pride, and international prestige will all be at stake. The Sydney Olympics Olympics Sports medicine An international competition among (traditionally) nonprofessional athletes trained in a particular summer or winter sport, which is held every 4 yrs in a selected city. See Paralympics, Special Olympics, World Medical Games. , from September 15 through October 1, will include a record number of sports (28), events (292), and athletes (10,200). Many events will take place in Stadium Australia, the largest arena in Olympic history, which will hold 110,000 spectators. The organizers say they are prepared, but not overconfident o·ver·con·fi·dent adj. Excessively confident; presumptuous. o  ver·con . "We're not scared, but we're running scared," says organizer Sandy Hollway. Sydney hopes to avoid the transportation and technology breakdowns that plagued the Atlanta Games in 1996. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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