THE 2000 SYDNEY OLYMPIC GAMES

THE INFORMATION
In 2000, the Olympic games were held in Sydney, Australia.

A whopping 10,651(4,069 female, 6,582 male) athletes from 199 countries came together to compete at this Olympic games.These athletes were provided with 165 events for men, 135 events for women and 12 mixed events, which brings us to a total of 311 events in the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

For everyone of these athletes who came 1ST,2ND or 3RD in one of these events were rewarded with a gold for first, silver for second and Bronze for third. Australia had 928 medals to offer these athletes. 301 Gold, 299 silver and 328 bronze medals.

THE SIGNIFICANT FACTORS
The Triathalon made its olympic debut in Sydney. Although it is a shame many of the athletes were suspected of using body boosters such as erythropoietin or EPO. EPO was a (as the say) an undetectable drug which is a proven performance booster, but this drug had another special quality, it could kill you . They say that when you are on EPO, you could go to sleep one night and never wake up. Even though this drug was said to be "undetectable" a team of Australian scientists believe the could catch many of the previous cheats with a test they had developed and taken to Sydney. So hopefully for the years to come there will not be any drugusers in th Olympics.