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Sydney Olympics Summer Olympics of the year of 2000 were held in the city of Sydney, New South Whales, Australia. Sydney was chosen to host the games on September 23, 1993. The other competitors to host the games were Beijing, Berlin, Istanbul and Manchester. Opening ceremony was organized on September 15 and the closing ceremony was celebrated on the 1^st of October. Though the opening ceremony was celebrated on 15^th of September but the preliminary matches of football had started from 13^th of September. 199 countries took part in the games except Afghanistan which was not allowed to take part in the games because of Taliban regime’s opposition to any kind of games and oppression of women. Four players from East Timor participated in the games under the Olympic Flag. Attraction of the games were Koreans who took part under the unification flag.

Indian Men Though Indian had sent a large number of players to participate in the games but they could not turn the medal search into reality. None of the Indian runners could match the world competition and lost even in their preliminary races. In men’s shot put and Javelin throw none of the Indian could advance the qualifying round. In Badminton Pullela Gopichand perished in the third match. Only Gurbachan Singh could reach the quarterfinal of Men’s heavyweight boxing competition as rest of the boxers lost before the quarter finals. Hockey team one again gave a dismal performance and ended with the seventh place defeating Argentina by 3-1 in the classification match.

Indian Women Karnam Malleswari was the only Indian who could win a medal (Bronze) in the games. She won it in the event of Women’s 69kg Weightlifting category. Though Beena Mol K. M. reached the semifinal of women’s 400m race but could not advance. Both of the women’s 4×100 m relay teams could not advance the first round. Neelam Jaswant Singh and Gurmeet Kaur could not go ahead the qualifying round of discus and javelin throw. In women’s heptathlon Pramila Gudandda Ganapathy and Soma Biswas ended with 24^th and 25^th positions respectively. Badminton player Aparna Popat’s challenge ended even in the first match. In women’s 200 m freestyle swimming Nisha Millet could not advance the preliminary round. It was once again the repetition of the previous games as Indian went into the games with high aspirations and ended with a very little conversion of them into reality.