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Sydney
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Sydney /ˈsɪdni/ is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania. Located on Australias east coast, the metropolis surrounds the worlds largest natural harbour, residents of Sydney are known as Sydneysiders. The Sydney area has been inhabited by indigenous Australians for at least 30,000 years, the first British settlers, led by Captain Arthur Phillip, arrived in 1788 to found Sydney as a penal colony, the first European settlement in Australia. Since convict transportation ended in the century, the city has transformed from a colonial outpost into a major global cultural. As at June 2016 Sydneys estimated population was 5,005,358, in the 2011 census,34 percent of the population reported having been born overseas, representing many different nationalities and making Sydney one of the most multicultural cities in the world. There are more than 250 different languages spoken in Sydney and about one-third of residents speak a language other than English at home and it is classified as an Alpha+ World City by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, indicating its influence in the region and throughout the world. Ranked eleventh in the world for economic opportunity, Sydney has a market economy with strengths in finance, manufacturing. Its gross regional product was $337 billion in 2013, the largest in Australia, there is a significant concentration of foreign banks and multinational corporations in Sydney and the city is promoted as one of Asia Pacifics leading financial hubs. Its natural features include Sydney Harbour, the Royal National Park, man-made attractions such as the Sydney Opera House, Sydney Tower and the Sydney Harbour Bridge are also well known to international visitors. The first people to inhabit the now known as Sydney were indigenous Australians having migrated from northern Australia. Radiocarbon dating suggests human activity first started to occur in the Sydney area from around 30,735 years ago, the earliest British settlers called them Eora people. Eora is the term the indigenous used to explain their origins upon first contact with the British. Its literal meaning is from this place, prior to the arrival of the British there were 4,000 to 8,000 native people in Sydney from as many as 29 different clans. Sydney Cove from Port Jackson to Petersham was inhabited by the Cadigal clan, the principal language groups were Darug, Guringai, and Dharawal. The earliest Europeans to visit the area noted that the people were conducting activities such as camping and fishing, using trees for bark and food, collecting shells. Development has destroyed much of the citys history including that of the first inhabitants, there continues to be examples of rock art and engravings located in the protected Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park. The first meeting between the people and the British occurred on 29 April 1770 when Lieutenant James Cook landed at Botany Bay on the Kurnell Peninsula. He noted in his journal that they were confused and somewhat hostile towards the foreign visitors, Cook was on a mission of exploration and was not commissioned to start a settlement
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Sailing at the 1996 Summer Olympics
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Sailing/Yachting is an Olympic sport starting from the Games of the 1st Olympiad. With the exception of 1904 and possibly 1916 sailing was always a part of the Olympic program, the Sailing program of 1996 consisted of a total of ten sailing classes. For each class, with the exception of the Soling, eleven races were scheduled from July 22 to August 2,1996 of the coast of Savannah at the Wassaw Sound. For the Soling ten fleetraces were scheduled followed by a series of matchraces for the top 6 boats of the fleetrace result, the sailing was done on the various types of course configurations. According to the IOC statutes the contests in all disciplines must be held either in. An exception was made for the Olympic yachting events, which customarily must be staged on the open sea, on account of this principle, the city of Savannah was chosen for the organization of the sailing events. Spectators were given the opportunity to board boats that will sail out to the courses to provide a look at the competition. About 1000 spectators per day use of the opportunity. The sailing events were held of the coast of Savannah at the Wassaw Sound, the venue used three locations, Satellite Olympic Village in Savannah Olympic marina on Wilmington Island. The Stars and Solings, were towed between the Olympic marina and their race areas, Day marina, a temporary barge system near the north side of Wassaw Sound at the mouth of the Wilmington River. The day marina was used as a launch area for the dinghies. Tornados, Stars and Solings were moved to the Sheraton facility, the Day Marina and the Sheraton are being evacuated, the evacuation was complete by 6 PM. On July 27 a Bomb explodes in Centennial Park in Atlanta, one person died, in the Soling some irregularities were found in the construction of the hull. The Soling Class rules specify the hull laminate for each part of the hull, the measurement methods in the Soling are of high standards to ensure the One Design principle. The USA boat was found correct, the Danish team however was randomly assigned the Spanish spare boat from the pool. In the 470 men the team from the USA also needed to use a spare boat, doppler weather radar was used from Charleston, South Carolina. From Jacksonville, Florida the weather above the offshore courses was observed, during the Sailing regattas at the 1996 Summer Olympics among others the following persons were competing in the various classes, The Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games. The Official Report of the Centennial Olympic Games, Volume I Planning, the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games
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2000 Summer Olympics
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It was the second time that the Summer Olympics were held in Australia, and also the Southern Hemisphere, the first being in Melbourne, Victoria, in 1956. Sydney was selected as the host city for the 2000 games in 1993, the United States won the most medals with 93, while Australia came in 4th with 58. The games cost was estimated to be A$6.6 billion, the Games received universal acclaim, with the organisation, volunteers, sportsmanship and Australian public being lauded in the international media. Bill Bryson from The Times called the Sydney Games one of the most successful events on the world stage, admit there can never be a better Olympic Games, and be done with it, as Sydney was both exceptional and the best. These were the final Olympic Games under the IOC presidency of Juan Antonio Samaranch and these were also the second Olympic Games to be held in spring. The final medal tally was led by the United States, followed by Russia, several World and Olympic records were broken during the games. With little or no controversies, the games were deemed successful with the rising standard of competition amongst nations across the world. The Australian city of Melbourne had lost out to Atlanta for the 1996 Summer Olympics four years earlier, the Oxford Olympics Study 2016 estimates the outturn cost of the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics at USD5 billion in 2015-dollars and cost overrun at 90% in real terms. This includes sports-related costs only, that is, operational costs incurred by the committee for the purpose of staging the Games. The competition venues, the Olympic village, international broadcast center, and media and press center, which are required to host the Games. The cost and cost overrun for Sydney 2000 compares with a cost of USD4.6 billion, average cost for the Summer Games since 1960 is USD5.2 billion, average cost overrun is 176%. In 2000, the Auditor-General of New South Wales reported that the Sydney Games cost A$6.6 billion, many venues were constructed in the Sydney Olympic Park, which failed in the years immediately following the Olympics to meet the expected bookings to meet upkeep expenses. In the years leading up to the games, funds were shifted from education and it has been estimated that the economic impact of the 2000 Olympics was that A$2.1 billion has been shaved from public consumption. Economic growth was not stimulated to a net benefit and in the years after 2000, in the years after the games, infrastructure issues have been of growing concern to citizens, especially those in the western suburbs of Sydney. Proposed rail links to Sydneys west have been estimated to cost in the order of magnitude as the public expenditure on the games. Although the Olympic Games Opening Ceremony was not scheduled until 15 September, among the pre-ceremony fixtures, host nation Australia lost 1–0 to Italy at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, which was the main stadium for the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. The opening ceremony began with a tribute to the Australian pastoral heritage of the Australian stockmen and it was produced and filmed by Sydney Olympic Broadcasting Organisation and the home nation broadcaster, Channel 7. This was introduced by a rider, Steve Jefferys
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Port Jackson
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Port Jackson, consisting of the waters of Sydney Harbour, Middle Harbour, North Harbour and the Lane Cove and Parramatta Rivers, is the ria or natural harbour of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The harbour is an inlet of the Tasman Sea and it is the location of the Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge. The location of the first European settlement in Australia, Port Jackson has continued to play a key role in the history and development of Sydney. Many recreational events are based on or around the harbour itself particularly the Sydney New Years Eve celebrations, the waterways of Port Jackson are managed by the Roads & Maritime Services. Sydney Harbour National Park protects a number of islands and foreshore areas, swimming spots, bushwalking tracks, the land around Port Jackson was occupied at the time of the European arrival and colonisation by the Eora clans, including the Gadigal, Cammeraygal, and Wangal. The Gadigal occupied the land stretching along the side of Port Jackson from what is now South Head. The Cammeragal lived on the side of the harbour. The area along the banks of the Parramatta River to Rose Hill belonged to the Wangal. The Eora occupied Port Jackson, south to the Georges River, the first recorded European discovery of Sydney Harbour, was by Lieutenant James Cook in 1770 - Cook named the inlet after Sir George Jackson. His ships log notation states at noon we were. about 2 or 3 miles from the land, eighteen years later, on 21 January 1788, after arriving at Botany Bay, Governor Arthur Phillip took a longboat and two cutters up the coast to examine Cooks Port Jackson. Phillip first stayed over night at Camp Cove, then moved down the harbour, landing at Sydney Cove, Phillip returned to Sydney Cove in HM Armed Tender Supply on 26 January 1788, where he established the first colony in Australia, later to become the city of Sydney. From 1938, seaplanes landed in Sydney Harbour on Rose Bay, in 1942, to protect Sydney Harbour from a submarine attack, the Sydney Harbour anti-submarine boom net was constructed. It spanned the harbour from Green Point, Watsons Bay to the battery at Georges Head, on the night of 31 May 1942, three Japanese midget submarines entered the harbour, one of which became entangled in the western end of the boom nets central section. Unable to free their submarine, the crew detonated charges, killing themselves in the process, a second midget submarine came to grief in Taylors Bay, the two crew committing suicide. The third submarine fired two torpedoes at USS Chicago before leaving the harbour, in November 2006, this submarine was found off Sydneys Northern Beaches. The anti-submarine boom net was demolished soon after World War II, and all that remains are the foundations of the old boom net winch house, today, the Australian War Memorial has on display a composite of the two midget submarines salvaged from Sydney Harbour. The conning tower of one of the submarines is on display at the RAN Heritage Centre, Garden Island. Fort Denison is a former site and defensive facility occupying a small island located north-east of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney Harbour
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Sailing
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Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the water, on ice or on land over a chosen course, which is often part of a larger plan of navigation. A course defined with respect to the wind direction is called a point of sail. Conventional sailing craft cannot derive power from sails on a point of sail that is too close into the wind, on a given point of sail, the sailor adjusts the alignment of each sail with respect to the apparent wind direction to mobilize the power of the wind. In the 21st century, most sailing represents a form of recreation or sport, recreational sailing or yachting can be divided into racing and cruising. Cruising can include extended offshore and ocean-crossing trips, coastal sailing within sight of land, until the end of the 19th century, sailing ships were the primary means for marine commerce. The earliest representation of a ship under sail appears on a painted disc found in Kuwait dating between 5000 and 5500 BCE, polynesian oceanfarers traveled vast distances of open ocean in outrigger canoes using navigation methods such as stick charts. Advances in sailing technology from the Middle Ages onward enabled Arab, Chinese, Indian and European explorers to make longer voyages into regions with extreme weather and climatic conditions. There were improvements in sails, masts and rigging, improvements in marine navigation including the tree and charts. Sailing has contributed to many great explorations in the world, the air interacting with the sails of a sailing vessel creates various forces, including reaction forces. If the sails are properly oriented with respect to the wind, however, boats propelled by sails cannot sail directly into the wind. They must tack back and forth in order to progress directly upwind, sails are airfoils that work by using an airflow set up by the wind and the motion of the boat. Sails work in two modes to use the wind to force, PUSH, when the boat is going in the same direction as the wind. The force on the sail is mostly aerodynamic drag, and sails acting in this way are aerodynamically stalled. This force manifests itself as pressure differences between the two sides of the sail - there is a region of low pressure on the front side of the sail and a region of high pressure on the back. Another way to say this is that sails generate lift using the air flows around them in the same way as an aircraft wing. The wind that a boat experiences is the combination of the true wind and this combination is the apparent wind, which is the relative velocity of the wind relative to the boat. When sailing upwind the apparent wind is greater than the true wind, iceboats can typically sail at 5 times the speed of the wind. Where there is a difference in motion, then there is energy to be extracted at the interface, the sailboat does this by placing the sail in the air and the hull in the water
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Soling
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The Soling is an International open keelboat class designed by Jan Linge from Norway in 1965. In 1968, it was selected to be an Olympic class for the Games of the XX Olympiad in Kiel 1972, the Soling maintained this status until her final appearance at the 2000 Olympics. The Soling is a boat designed for any wind and sea condition and is - above all - fun to sail. Fitness, sailing and team skills are basic requirements for successful racing, the boats are one-design originating from an authorized single plug and mould and made of glass reinforced polyester, making competition as equal as possible. The lifetime of a Soling is long and those produced in the early days still sail beautifully and some are still in competition. The average competition life of a Soling boat is considered 15 years making the Soling a perfect cost / benefit boat for racing purposes, characteristic for the Soling is the droop-hiking technique. Since 2008 the Soling is one of the Vintage Yachting Classes at the Vintage Yachting Games and this friend, Finn Ferner, was a successful businessman and an outstanding helmsman, an Olympic medalist and winner of many international events.5 rules. After 1960 Linge completed his sketches to demonstrate his ideas for promoting a Norwegian national class.5 or Dragon. The underlying goals for new boats were not explicit, but hinted, high performance. It was the announcement by the Class Policy Committee in mid-1963 that started events leading to the adoption of the Solings Olympic status four years later. The American magazine Yachting undertook to accept design sketches for presentation at the November 1963 meeting, what IYRU wanted was a nice compromise between maximum speed and maximum seaworthiness, with a good measure of both. His next door neighbour, Sverre Olsen became interested in backing the effort, a wooden prototype was built, for experimenting with sizes and placement of rudders, keels, and rig. Finn Ferner, the skipper and Linges 5.5 client of 1960. By mid 1965, Linge and Ferner were satisfied enough with their work to manufacture the moulds needed for producing complete fibreglass boats, in November 1965, the IYRU scheduled trials to be held off Kiel during September 1966. During the winter of 1965–66, five fibreglass Solings were built which were extensively sailed against one another during the following summer and this competition was destined to be helpful in the heavy weather ahead at Kiel – chosen as a windy challenge for what the IYRU desired. The first race was in air, but thereafter for ten of the eleven races. The final race may have been all the rest for the Soling. Not surprisingly, the Committees desire to race was persuasive, by the windward mark only the Soling was left to sail the course, and so was able to demonstrate her outstanding ability to handle heavy air
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49er (dinghy)
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The 49er and 49er FX is a two-handed skiff-type high-performance sailing dinghy. The two crew work on different roles with the helm making many decisions, as well as steering. Both of the crew are equipped with their own trapeze and sailing is handled while flying, the 49er was designed by Julian Bethwaite, the son of Frank Bethwaite, designer of the Tasar and the popular Laser 2 classes. The 49ers name comes from its length of 4.99 metres. It incorporates ideas developed in Julian Bethwaites 18ft Skiffs, notably the Prime Computer series of boats, which were double handers. For a controllable and fast gust response, the mast was carefully tuned to deflect from the top downwards with an increase in speed, causing the upper main to twist. The use of wings, rather than tubes as on similar boats. The 49er made its first Olympic appearance at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 and has continued to grow in popularity ever since, with a Portsmouth yardstick Handicap of 710 the 49er is the fastest two person one-design monohull dinghy. In 2009 the boat received a new rig design, including a larger fully carbon mast, as a one design class, the 49er has two licensed suppliers, Mackay Boats and Ovington. They are made of Epoxy GRP and foam sandwich laminate with carbon fibre in high load areas and it includes a single hull with two solid wings, also called racks, that clip into the side to generate massive righting moment. The design of the bottom allows the boat to be able to plane easier with less drag to reach high speeds, according to the International 49er class rules, the minimum hull weight including all permanent fittings can not be less than 94.0 kg. Licensed supplier of the 49er mast is a company named Southern Spars and it is a three piece male moulded mast made from 100% standard modulus carbon. The height is 7.0 meters tall that is capable of holding a combined weight of 155 kg to 165 kg. It contains three sets of shrouds that connect to a fitting on the side of the boat, the crew is able to adjust them by tightening or loosening them, depending on the wind speed and sea states. The foils are made out of a hard Gelcoat surface and then different combinations of Epoxy, Carbon and they are designed to handle the high loads and quick maneuvers the 49er makes while sailing. In order to be legal it shall carry the embossed 49er logo, the 49er contains three sails, a main sail, jib, and spinnaker. The main and jib are 20 square meters, fully battened, the main is also square on top to provide more sail area and to control more shape adjustment. The spinnaker is 38 square meters in an asymmetric shape
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Israel at the 2000 Summer Olympics
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Israel competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. 39 competitors,29 men and 10 women, took part in 43 events in 9 sports, the delegation of 39 athletes was the biggest at the time, and third-biggest in history, after 2008 with 40 and 2016 with 47. Michael Kolganov — Canoeing, Mens K1 500m Kayak Singles Israel competed in four events in the Sailing venue at the 2000 Olympics and they had two top ten finishes, including 4th place in the womens 470. The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics, Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games. Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 1, Preparing for the Games, Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games. Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 2, Celebrating the Games, Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games
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South Africa at the 2000 Summer Olympics
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South Africa competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. The South African Airways had one of their Boeing 747-300s specially painted in colours to transport the South African Olympic team to Sydney. The aircraft was dubbed the Ndizani. Again, Lewis had the only victory. Women Men Track & road events Field events Women Track & road events Field events South Africas first appearance in the Olympic baseball tournament resulted in a last-place finish, the baseball team finished the preliminary round with a 1-6 record, having lost by 10 runs or more four times. The only team that South Africa defeated was the Netherlands, Men Team Roster Men Men Women Team Roster Advanced to medal round Team Roster One female pentathlete represented South Africa in 2000. Women Men Open Men Women South Africa has qualified a single taekwondo jin
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Australia at the 2000 Summer Olympics
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Australia was the host nation for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Australian athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games,628 competitors,341 men and 276 women, took part in 270 events in 34 sports. Australia won its first Olympic gold medal in the sport of archery in Sydney, simon Fairweather defeated all six archers he faced, including a comfortable seven-point victory in the final. Men Women Seven fencers, five men and two women, represented Australia in 2000 and they won 2 golds,1 silver and 1 bronze. They won 5 Gold,9 Silver, and 4 Bronze medals, the biggest rivalry, both in the press and in the pool, was between the United States and Australia relay teams. In the 4 ×100 m relay, the Americans had won the event every time it had been contested, Australia was able to edge out the Americans by.19 seconds to win the gold medal. The Australians also set three world records, the 2000 Olympics also saw the emergence of Ian Thorpe as an Olympic champion in the Mens 400 m Freestyle
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