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2000 Sep 15 |
In Australia the XXVII Olympic Games opened in Sidney. The 2000 Summer Olympics opened with a seemingly endless parade of athletes and coaches and a spectacular display that included wild fantasy, blazing color, and booming cheers; Aborigine runner Cathy Freeman ignited an Olympic ring of fire. Links: Australia, Olympics, Runners 
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2000 Sep 16 |
American Nancy Johnson captured the first gold medal of the Sydney Olympics, winning the women's 10-meter air rifle. Links: Australia, USA, Olympics
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2000 Sep 17 |
In Sydney, Australia, swimmer Tom Dolan of the United States won the 400-meter individual medley. Links: Australia, USA, Olympics
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2000 Sep 19 |
In Australia the Romanian women's gymnastics team won the gold medal at the Sydney Olympics; Russia won the silver, China took the bronze, and the U.S. placed fourth. Links: Australia, Romania, Olympics
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2000 Sep 23 |
At the Sydney Olympics, Marion Jones won the women's 100-meter final in 10.7 seconds; Maurice Greene took the men's 100 in 9.87 seconds. Links: Australia, Olympics
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2000 Sep 25 |
In Sydney, Australia, Cathy Freeman became the first Aborigine to win an individual Olympic gold medal, capturing the women's 400 meters. Michael Johnson of the United States became the first man to successfully defend a 400-meter title. Links: Australia, Olympics
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2000 Sep 26 |
At the Sydney Olympics, the U.S. softball team completed a stunning comeback by edging Japan 2-to-1 in extra innings to win its second straight gold medal. Links: Australia, Olympics, Baseball
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2000 Sep 27 |
In Sydney, Australia, the U.S. Olympic baseball team beat Cuba 4-0 to capture its first baseball gold medal. Links: Australia, Olympics, Baseball
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2000 Sep 27 |
Venus Williams became only the second player to win Wimbledon, the U.S. Open and the Olympics in the same year with her 6-2, 6-4 victory over Elena Dementieva. The first was Steffi Graf, in 1988. Links: Australia, Olympics, Tennis
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2000 Sep 28 |
In Sydney, Australia, Venus Williams earned her second Olympic gold medal, teaming with sister Serena in the final of women's doubles to beat Miriam Oremans and Kristie Boogert of the Netherlands, 6-1, 6-1. Links: Australia, Olympics, Tennis
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2000 Sep 30 |
In Sydney, Australia, Marion Jones won Olympic gold in the U.S. women's 1,600-meter relay and bronze with the 400-meter squad, making her the only woman to win five track medals at one Olympics. In 2007 the IOC stripped Jones of her 5 medals due to use of steroids. Links: Australia, Olympics
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2000 Oct 1 |
On the last day of the 27th Olympics in Sydney, the U.S. men's basketball team beat France for the gold medal. The United States led the way in the final medal tally, collecting 97 (39 gold, 25 silver and 33 bronze); Russia was second with 88 (32, 28 and 28), China third with 59 (28, 16, 15) and host Australia was fourth, with 58. Links: Australia, USA, Olympics, Basketball
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2000 Dec 3 |
Sandra Baldwin was elected the first female president of the U.S. Olympic Committee. Baldwin resigned in May 2002 after she admitted lying about her academic credentials. Links: USA, Olympics
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2001 Jul 13 |
The IOC awarded Beijing, China, the honor of hosting the 2008 Summer Olympics. Links: China, Olympics
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2001 Jul 16 |
The IOC in Moscow elected Jacques Rogge (59), a Belgian surgeon, to succeed Juan Antonio Samaranch. Links: Belgium, Olympics
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2001 Dec 4 |
The Olympic flame began a 46-state, two-month journey from Atlanta, host city of the 1996 Summer Games, to the opening ceremony of the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games. Links: Olympics, Utah
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2002 Feb 8 |
Pres. Bush opened the 19th Winter Olympic Games as part of a 3-hour ceremony at Rice-Eccles Stadium at the Univ. of Utah campus, which included an emotional tribute to America's heroes, from the pioneers of the West to past Olympic champions to the thousands who perished on Sept. 11, 2001. Links: USA, Olympics, Utah, BushGW
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2002 Feb 9 |
At the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Jochem Uytdehaage of the Netherlands won the gold medal in the men's 5,000-meter speedskating race in world record time of 6:14.66. Links: Netherlands, Olympics, Utah, Skating
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2002 Feb 11 |
Americans Ross Powers, Danny Kass and J.J. Thomas took gold, silver and bronze in the men's halfpipe at the Salt Lake City Olympics. Gold medals for the Olympics free-style skating event went to Russians Anton Sikharulidze and Elena Berezhnaya. French judge Marie-Reine Le Gougne later admitted to being pressured to support the Russian team. On Feb 15 Olympic officials awarded a 2nd gold medal to Canadians David Pelletier and Jamie Sale for their performance. Links: Canada, Olympics, Utah, Skating
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2002 Feb 12 |
The International Skating Union announced it would conduct an "internal assessment" of the Olympic judging that gave the Russians the pairs figure skating gold medal over the Canadians. Links: Russia, Canada, Olympics, Skating
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2002 Feb 15 |
Skating and Olympics officials awarded Canadian pairs figure skaters Jamie Sale and David Pelletier a gold medal, while letting the Russian pair, Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze, keep their gold medal, as a way to resolve a judging controversy that had dominated the Winter Games in Salt Lake City. Links: Russia, Canada, Olympics, Utah
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2002 Feb 18 |
France's Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat narrowly won the Olympic ice dancing gold medal. Links: France, Olympics, Utah
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2002 Feb 19 |
In Salt Lake City, a win by bobsledders Jill Bakken and Vonetta Flowers gave the United States 21 medals in the Winter Games; Flowers became the first black athlete ever to strike gold at the Winter Olympics. Links: USA, Olympics, Utah
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2002 Feb 20 |
At the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, Jim Shea won the men's skeleton race, finishing the two runs at Utah Olympic Park in one minute, 41.96 seconds. The victory was the culmination of an emotional two months for Shea, whose 91-year-old grandfather, Olympic gold medal speedskater Jack Shea, died four weeks earlier. American speedskater Apolo Anton Ohno won the 1,500 meters after South Korean Kim Dong-sung, who had crossed the finish line ahead of him, was disqualified. Links: South Korea, Olympics, Utah, Skating
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2002 Feb 21 |
Sarah Hughes (16) of Great neck, NY, won 1st place in the Olympics women’s free skate competition, leaving teammate Michelle Kwan to settle for a bronze. Links: Olympics, Utah, Skating
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2002 Feb 24 |
The XIX Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City came to a close. In one of the last events Canada beat the US hockey team 5-2 for the gold. Links: Russia, Spain, Canada, Olympics, Utah
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2002 May 24 |
US Olympic Committee president Sandra Baldwin resigned, a day after she admitted lying about her academic credentials. Links: USA, Olympics
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2002 Jul 31 |
US court papers alleged that Russia's Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov (53) used his influence with members of the Russian and French skating federations to fix the outcome of the pairs and ice dancing competitions at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics last February. Tokhtakhounov was arrested in Italy. Italy’s highest court denounced an extradition bid and freed Tokhtakhounov. Links: Russia, USA, France, Olympics, Utah, Skating
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2003 Jun 6 |
Already the holder of U.S. rights to the Olympics through 2008, NBC secured the contracts for the 2010 and 2012 games for $2.2 billion. Links: USA, Olympics, TV
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2003 Jul 2 |
Vancouver, Canada, was awarded the 2010 Winter Olympics. Links: Canada, Olympics
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2003 Aug 11 |
Herb Brooks, who coached the U.S. Olympic hockey team to the "Miracle on Ice" victory over the Soviet Union in 1980, died in a car wreck near Minneapolis at age 66. Links: Olympics, Hockey
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2003 Dec 5 |
A federal judge in Utah threw out the case against two civic leaders accused of bribery in their efforts to bring the 2002 Winter Games to Salt Lake City. Links: USA, Olympics, Utah
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2004 Mar 25 |
The Olympic torch was lit in Ilida, Greece, and began its journey to herald the summer Olympiad, Aug 13-29. A 6-continent tour was planned using 2 747s named Zeus and Hera with a bill of $50 million. Links: Olympics, Greece
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2004 May 17 |
Transsexuals were cleared to compete in the Olympics for the first time. Links: Olympics, Gays
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2004 Jun 9 |
A new scoring system for figure skating was approved after the Olympic pairs scandal forced the sport's governing body to make radical changes. Links: Olympics
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2004 Jul |
In 2006 the Greek government reported that mobile phones belonging to top Greek military and government officials, including the prime minister and the US embassy, were tapped for nearly a year beginning in the weeks before the 2004 Olympic games. It was not known who was responsible for the taps, which numbered about 100. Links: Olympics, Greece, Telecom, Espionage
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2004 Aug 11 |
The U.S. women's soccer team defeated home team Greece 3-0 on the first day of competition in the 2004 Olympic Games. The opening ceremony took place two days later. Links: USA, Olympics, Greece, Soccer
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2004 Aug 13 |
The Olympics opened In Athens. A sea of athletes under 202 flags parted to let a Greek windsurfing champion jog across the stadium and climb to the Olympic cauldron, which dipped on its slender 102-foot arm to receive the spark from his torch. Women’s wrestling debuted as an Olympic sport. Links: Olympics, Greece, Women, Wrestling
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2004 Aug 15 |
IOC officials, worried by the television images being flashed around the world of athletes competing in near empty stadiums, told the Athens Games organizers to give tickets away for free if necessary. Links: Olympics, Greece
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2004 Aug 15 |
In Athens, the US men's basketball team lost 92-73 to Puerto Rico, only the third Olympic defeat ever for the Americans and first since adding pros. Links: Olympics, Greece, Basketball
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2004 Aug 17 |
At the Athens games, Romania won its second straight Olympic gold medal in women's gymnastics; the United States took silver while Russia won the bronze. Links: Russia, Romania, USA, Olympics, Greece
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2004 Aug 18 |
In Athens Paul Hamm won the men's gymnastics all-around Olympic gold medal by the closest margin ever in the event; controversy followed after it was discovered a scoring error might have cost Yang Tae-young of South Korea the title. Links: USA, South Korea, Olympics, Greece
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2004 Aug 19 |
Carly Patterson won gymnastics' premier event at the Olympics in Athens, becoming the first U.S. woman to win the all-around title since Mary Lou Retton in 1984. Links: USA, Olympics, Greece
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2004 Aug 20 |
In Athens, Michael Phelps matched Mark Spitz's record of four individual gold medals in the Olympic pool with a stirring comeback in the 100-meter butterfly, then removed himself from further competition. Links: Olympics, Greece, Swimmer
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2004 Aug 21 |
Iraq celebrated their national soccer team's startling 1-0 victory over Australia in the Olympic quarterfinal. Links: Australia, Iraq, Olympics, Soccer
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2004 Aug 21 |
The International Gymnastics Federation ruled that South Korean Yang Tae-young was unfairly docked a tenth of a point in the all-around gymnastics final at the Athens Olympics, costing him the gold medal that ended up going to Paul Hamm of the United States; however, the ruling did not change the final result. Links: USA, South Korea, Olympics, Greece
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2004 Aug 22 |
In the Olympics Justin Gatlin of the US won the 10-meter dash in 9.85 sec. Links: USA, Olympics
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2004 Aug 23 |
In Athens, Jeremy Wariner became the sixth consecutive American to win the Olympic title in the 400 meters, leading a U.S. sweep of the medals. The U.S. softball team won its third straight gold medal with a 5-1 victory over Australia. Links: USA, Olympics, Greece, Baseball
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2004 Aug 25 |
Israel captured its 1st ever gold medal with a win by Gal Fridman in wind surfing. Links: Israel, Olympics
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2004 Aug 26 |
At the Athens Olympics, the US women's soccer team won the gold medal by beating Brazil, 2-1, in overtime; Shawn Crawford led a U.S. sweep of the 200 meters. Links: USA, Olympics, Greece, Soccer
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2004 Aug 28 |
In Greece the US men's basketball team won the bronze, the 100th U.S. medal of the Athens Games. Links: USA, Olympics, Greece
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2004 Aug 29 |
Closing ceremonies were held in Athens, Greece, for the 28th Olympiad. During one of the final events, lead marathon runner Vanderlie Lima of Brazil was pushed into the crowd by an intruder, but managed to finish 3rd behind Stefano Baldini of Italy. Links: Brazil, Olympics, Greece, Runners
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2004 |
Elena Votsi, Greek artist, designed the 2004 Olympic medal. It was the 1st re-design in 76 years. Links: Artist, Olympics, Greece
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2005 Jan 7 |
Rosemary Kennedy (86), the mentally retarded oldest sister of President Kennedy and the inspiration for the Special Olympics, died at a Fort Atkinson, Wis., hospital. Links: USA, Olympics
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2005 Jul 6 |
London was awarded the 2012 Olympics, upsetting European rival Paris in the final round of voting to take the games back to the British capital for the first time since 1948. Costs for the 2112 Olympics were originally estimated at £2.4 billion. By 2006 the costs rose to £4.7 billion. Links: Britain, Olympics
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2005 Nov 1 |
Officials from North and South Korea agreed to meet next month to work out details on competing as a unified team for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Links: North Korea, South Korea, Olympics
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2005 Nov 11 |
In an elaborate, nationally televised gala at a Beijing sports arena to mark the 1,000-day countdown until the Games, senior Chinese leaders introduced their Olympic mascots: cartoon renditions of a panda, fish, Tibetan antelope, swallow and the Olympic flame, each one the color of one of the Olympic rings. Links: China, Olympics
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2006 Feb 2 |
The Greek government reported that mobile phones belonging to top Greek military and government officials, including the prime minister and the US embassy, were tapped for nearly a year beginning in the weeks before the 2004 Olympic games. It was not known who was responsible for the taps, which numbered about 100. Links: Olympics, Greece, Telecom, Espionage
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2006 Feb 10 |
Opening ceremonies were held in Turin, Italy, for the 20th Winter Olympics. Cross-country skier and gold medalist Stefania Belmondo lit the caldron. Links: Italy, Olympics
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2006 Feb 11 |
American Chad Hedrick won the 5,000 meters in speedskating at the Olympics in Turin, Italy. Links: Italy, USA, Olympics
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