Beijing 2008
The Beijing Olympics featured 28 sports and over 300 events. For some of these events, this is the final year they will be included in the Olympics. Sports that will be retired include softball, which features several LDS athletes and baseball. New this year was the addition of allowing women to participate in the 3000m steeplechase. In addition, BMX (a bicycling event) was added to the list for both men and women. Two fencing events were added for women and a marathon swimming event was added for both genders.
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Turin 2006
The Games featured 84 medal events in 15 disciplines grouped over 7 sports. Events that made Olympic debut in Turin included mass start biathlon, team sprint cross country skiing, snowboard cross and team pursuit speedskating. The classical men’s 50 km and women’s 30 km distances, which were held at the previous Winter Games in 2002, were not held in these Games, as these events were alternated with freestyle events of the same distances; in fact, most of the cross country skiing events at the Torino Games involved different distances from those in Salt Lake City.
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Athens 2004
2004 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, were held in Athens, Greece, over a period of 17 days from August 13 to August 29, 2004. Planners expected 10,500 athletes (in fact 11,099 competed) and 5,501 team officials from 202 countries. Athens 2004 marked the first time since the 1996 Summer Olympics that all countries with a National Olympic Committee were in attendance. There were a total of 301 medal events from 28 different sports.
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Salt Lake City 2002
The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIX Olympic Winter Games, were held in 2002 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Other candidate cities were: Quebec City, Quebec, Canada; Sion, Switzerland; and Östersund, Sweden. Salt Lake City was selected as the host city on June 16, 1995 at the 104th IOC Session in Budapest. Olympic venues were scattered around Salt Lake City, as well as in the mountains at Park City, Ogden, Provo and West Valley City. Athletes were housed in the Olympic Village at the University of Utah.
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Sydney 2000
The 2000 Summer Olympics or the Millennium Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were the Summer Olympic Games held in 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
The Opening Ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games was described by IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch as the most beautiful ceremony he had ever seen. Held on the evening of Friday 15th September 2000, the Opening Ceremony represented everything Australian, from sea creatures and flora/fauna to lawn mowers and other Australian cultural icons.
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