At the turn of the 21st century, Australia put on a show for the world, but for all the talk of the future, we still had one foot in the past.
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The Australian Paralympic Federation took a new approach for the training, preparation and selection of its athletes for the Sydney Games, helping Australia win the most gold and overall medals.
Sydney 2000 may not have seen a sustained increase in sport participation. But the Olympics did leave a mark on Australia.
Two dramatic narratives arc through this documentary that marks 20 years since Cathy Freeman’s Olympic triumph: her reflections as an elite athlete, and our experience as a nation of spectators.
Cameroon being stripped off hosting the Africa Cup of Nations affects its international reputation and is likely to impact the economy.
The commonly believed mechanism for increasing sport participation assumes that elite sport performances result in a greater number of people taking up sport.
Athletes are increasingly expected to be good role models. But we don’t usually expect them to sacrifice their chance of winning to help others.
Medal counts for individual countries from the Sydney 2000 to London 2012 Olympics have been predicted relatively accurately, using just a small number of demographic and economic characteristics.
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Facilitator, Australian Paralympic History Project, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Sport Business Management, Leeds Beckett University
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Professor, Australian and Aboriginal History, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, Convenor: Indigenous Land & Justice Research Group, UNSW
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Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Macquarie University
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Adjunct Research Fellow, CQUniversity Australia
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Emeritus Professor of Cultural Research, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Sport History, Queensland Centre for Olympic and Paralympic Studies, The University of Queensland
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Senior lecturer, Western Sydney University
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Senior Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer in Australian Political Studies, University of Canberra