Josie and Lucas discuss the crater on Australian culture that is the Sydney 2000 Olympics. We discuss our Olympic highlights and then get real fucking bleak as we stare down the Brisbane 2032 Olympics.
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NOTES:
Encyclopedia of the Modern Olympic Movement
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=QmXi_-Jujj0C&pg=PA252&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
Sydney 2000 - Auditor slams costs
https://web.archive.org/web/20050207142926/http://www.liebreich.com/LDC/HTML/Olympics/London/Sydney.html
No medals for economic benefits of the games
https://web.archive.org/web/20120818202141/http://www.smh.com.au/business/no-medals-for-economic-benefits-of-the-games-20080411-25ks.html?page=2
Go You Good Thing: The 2000 Sydney Olympic Games Remembered
https://junkee.com/go-you-good-thing-the-2000-sydney-olympic-games-remembered-fifteen-years-on-5/65648
Flyvbjerg, Bent; Stewart, Allison; Budzier, Alexander (2016). The Oxford Olympics Study 2016: Cost and Cost Overrun at the Games. Oxford: Saïd Business School Working Papers (Oxford: University of Oxford)
Sydney’s homeless to be removed for Olympics
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2000/02/olymp-f03.html
Sydney Olympics Opening Ceremony Twenty Years On
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-13/sydney-olympics-opening-ceremony-twenty-years-on/12655758
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/apr/15/man-sues-museum-after-hitting-a-wall-in-race-to-beat-virtual-cathy-freeman#:~:text=An%20Australian%20man%20has%20launched,a%2010m%20dual%2Dlane%20track.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-02/tokyo-man-evicted-twice-olympic-construction/100264270
