Episode 10 - The Sydney 2000 Olympics

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. Support the show on Patreon -www.patreon.com/australiangothicpodcast Discord - https://discord.gg/br4APk3j Twitter - https://twitter.com/ausgothicpod Lucas - https://twitter.com/luxasmmm Josie - https://twitter.com/jsspcr1 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

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