Sydney Olympic Park

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Sydney Olympic Park is a 640-hectare site located at Homebush Bay, New South Wales, Australia. It was built for the 2000 Olympics and continues to be used for sporting and cultural events, including the Sydney Royal Easter Show. It is served by the Olympic Park railway line and station. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1024x768, 203 KB) Summary wikipedia:Sydney Olympic Park. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1024x768, 203 KB) Summary wikipedia:Sydney Olympic Park. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (590x705, 50 KB) Summary Map of w:Sydney Olympic Park with main sports venues shown in yellow. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (590x705, 50 KB) Summary Map of w:Sydney Olympic Park with main sports venues shown in yellow. ... Homebush Bay is a suburb of Sydney, Australia, adjacent to the newly developed suburb of Newington. ... Motto: Orta Recens Quam Pura Nites (Newly Risen, How Brightly You Shine) Nickname: First State, Premier State Other Australian states and territories Capital Sydney Government Governor Premier Const. ... (Redirected from 2000 Olympics) Categories: 2000 Summer Olympics ... The Sydney Royal Easter Show (RES) in Sydney, Australia, (also known as the Royal Easter Show or simply the Sydney Royal) is an annual show held over two weeks around Easter. ... The Olympic Park Line is a train line in Sydney, Australia that connects the Sydney Olympic Park to the rest of the CityRail metropolitan train network. ... The Olympic Park railway station in Sydney serves the sportsgrounds and stadiums in the Homebush Bay area. ...

Sydney Olympic Park is operated by the Sydney Olympic Park Authority. The site was previously intended (pre-Olympic bid) for a massive urban renewal project of the Homebush Bay area, of which the renewal masterplan was altered to accommodate venues for the 2000 Olympics. Blight often stands side-by-side with new structures during urban renewal efforts. ...

History

The Wann-gal clan of Indigenous Australians lived in the area before British settlement. The area was called "The Flats" by a scouting party shortly after the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788. It became part of the Newington Estate in 1807 which was acquired by John Blaxland. The Government acquired some of the land for an aged women's home in the late 19th century. Much of the land was filled in from the river and wetlands. [1] A 19th century engraving of an Indigenous Australian encampment, showing the indigenous mode of life in the cooler parts of Australia at the time of European settlement. ...

Before its transformation, Olympic Park was an industrial wasteland after 100 years of industrial & military ventures on the site. The site was once home to a brickworks, abattoir and an armaments depot as well as being the site for eight of Sydney's rubbish dumps. Wasteland can refer to: Look up wasteland in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Brickwork is produced when a bricklayer uses bricks and mortar to build up structures such as walls, bridges and chimneys. ... Workers and cattle in a slaughterhouse. ... The bayonet, still used in war as both knife and spearpoint. ...

Since the end of the 2000 Olympics, Sydney Olympic Park is being converted to a multipurpose facility with a number of businesses re-locating to the area.

Events

Currently there are nearly 1800 events which are held at the park every year, including the Sydney Royal Easter Show, National Rugby League and Australian Rugby League games at Telstra Stadium, and athletics and swimming events. It has hosted the Big Day Out music festival and has been the venue for free, open air performances as part of the Sydney Festival. The Sydney Royal Easter Show (RES) in Sydney, Australia, (also known as the Royal Easter Show or simply the Sydney Royal) is an annual show held over two weeks around Easter. ... The logo of the National Rugby League. ... The Australian Rugby League (ARL) is the governing body for the sport of Rugby League in Australia. ... This page is for Telstra Stadium, Sydney. ... Athletics, also known, especially in American English, as track and field or track and field athletics, is a collection of sport events, which can roughly be divided into running, throwing, and jumping. ... Swimming is the method by which living creatures move themselves through water in a method not involving simply walking on the bottom. ... The Big Day Out or BDO is an annual one day music festival which tours Australasia. ...

The Newington Armoury will be the venue for a music festival during Easter 2006.

Some venues function have changed from the orginal one in the 2000 Olympics, such as the Baseball stadium shown on this map which has become the Sydney showground, and also the Olympic stadium has been renamed the Telstra stadium.

Management

• Prior to 1995 (Pre Olympic Site) - Homebush Bay Development Corporation
• 1995 to 2001 - Olympic Co-Ordination Authority
• 2001 to present - Sydney Olympic Park Authority

Facilities

Sydney 2000 Olympics venues

• Telstra Stadium (capacity 110,000) [2]
• Sydney SuperDome (capacity: Basketball 18,000; Gymnastics 15,000)
• Sydney Showgrounds - Home of Sydney's Royal Easter Show
• Sydney Olympic Park Athletic Centre
• Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre (capacity 17,500)
• Sydney Olympic Park Tennis Centre (capacity 16,200)
• Sydney Olympic Park Hockey Centre (capacity 15,000)
• Sydney Olympic Park Archery Centre (capacity 4,500)
• Sydney Olympic Park Sports Centre (capacity 5,000)
• Sydney Olympic Park Sports Halls

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Non-Olympic facilities

• Sydney Olympic Park Golf Centre
• Sydney Olympic Park Mountain X - Mountain Biking
• Monster Skate Park

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Accomodation

• Novotel and Hotel Ibis, Sydney Olympic Park
• Former Olympic Village - now suburb of Newington, Sydney

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Parklands

• Bicentennial Park - 40 Hectares of Parkland, opened in 1988 to celebrate Australia's Bicentenary
• 425 Hectares of Parkland, throughout the Olympic Park site

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Restricted areas

• Newington Armory - Former Armory Store for the Royal Australian Navy

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External links

• Official Site
• Photos of construction progress