Comic highlights - in pictures
From the weird to the wonderful, the Olympics were full of fun and games for all involved.

Olympic closing ceremony - in pictures
Images from the closing ceremony of the Sydney Games.

Women's modern pentathlon - in pictures
Glory for Great Britain on the final day in Sydney as Stephanie Cook and Kate Allenby add another gold and bronze medal in this five-discipline event.

Scotland's Olympic heroes - in pictures
Images of Scotland's medallists from the Olympic Games in Sydney.

Harrison's boxing gold - in pictures
Audley Harrison overcomes a serious hand injury to become Britain's first boxing gold medallist since 1968. Images from his golden performance in Sydney.

Faces of Sydney - in pictures
The supporters of the world have united in making Sydney the most successful games ever.

Despair and drugs - in pictures
The games have not been a happy time for all those competitors who tested positive for drugs and those who tasted defeat.

The stars of Sydney - in pictures
The Sydney Olympics have produced many outstanding performances. BBC Sport Online brings you images of the stars that captivated the world.

Multi-medal winners - in pictures
The Sydney 2000 Olympics has seen athletes excel beyond expectation. There have been double medal winners and hat-tricks with the USA's Marion Jones taking triple gold.

Olympics day fifteen - in pictures
Images from day fifteen of the Olympic Games in Sydney.

Men's football final - in pictures
Cameroon earned their first ever Olympic gold medal after beating Spain in the men's football final.

Individual time trials - in pictures
Russian Viacheslav Ekimov truimphs in the men's while the Netherland's Leontien Zijlaard claims her third gold of the games in the women's.

Olympics day fourteen - in pictures
Images from the 14th day of the Olympic game in Sydney.

Golden wind in British sails - in pictures
Shirley Robertson won Britain's first sailing gold of the games, quickly followed by Ben Ainslie. Images from Rushcutter's Bay tell the story.

Men's and women's 200m final - in pictures
No surprises in the women's 200m as Marion Jones wins her second gold out of a possible five. In the men's final, GB's Darren Campbell put the ghost of the 100m behind him to take the silver medal.

Track and Field Day thirteen - in pictures
Images from the athletics events on day thirteen of the Sydney Olympics, where Britain's Darren Campbell took silver in the men's 200m.

Olympics day thirteen - in pictures
Images away from Stadium Australia round up the action from events including sychronised diving, tennis and sailing.

Decathlon day two - in pictures
Images from the second day of competition in the decathlon, with Britain's Dean Macey battling bravely for a medal.

Olympics day twelve - in pictures
Images from the best of the day's Olympic action as the athletes come back on track following their rest day.

Williams wins gold: in pictures
Images from the Olympic women's tennis final where Elena Dementieva was beaten into silver medal place by Venus Williams who won her 32nd consecutive match.

Decathlon day one: In pictures
Britain's Dean Macey is hoping to add an Olympic medal to his World Championship silver. Images from the first day's action in the Decathlon event.

Ullrich's golden finish - in pictures
Former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich powers away in the closing stages to claim gold in the Olympic men's road race.

Great Golden Brits - in pictures
Revelling in the glory, BBC Sport Online brings you images of the British athletes who will return from Sydney with that illustrious medal.

Britain's Silver Stars - in pictures
Images of Britain's silver medal winning Olympians from Sydney 2000.

Brilliant Bronze Brits - in pictures
Images of Britain's Olympic bronze medal winners at Sydney 2000.

Olympics day eleven - in pictures
As the athletes take a break in Sydney the best of the day's images depict some of the more obscure, and some not so obscure, events at this year's Olympics.

Olympics day ten - in pictures
Highlights from Sydney on day ten of the Olympic Games as the home favourite Kathy Freeman, won gold alongside Michael Johnson, Haile Gebrselassie and Anier Garcia in some of the days other events.

Triple jump gold for Edwards - in pictures
Jonathan Edwards leaped his way to triple jump gold at Sydney 2000. Images from Stadium Australia tell the story of Olympic success.

Women's 400m final - in pictures
Cathy Freeman fulfils the dreams of Australia with gold in the Olympic 400m while Britain's Katharine Merry claims bronze.

Heptathlon gold for Lewis - in pictures
Denise Lewis won the heptathlon gold after hanging on in the final event. Images from Stadium Australia tell the story of a glorious gold.

British clinch sailing silver - in pictures
Images from the Olympic Open sailing 49er class race, where Britain's Ian Barker and Simon Hiscocks won a silver medal.

Olympics day nine - in pictures
Highlights from Sydney on day nine of the Olympic Games as the home nation's darling, Cathy Freeman, eases through to the women's 400m final.

More glory for British rowers - in pictures
Images from the final day of the Olympic regatta where Britain took gold in the men's eight and silver in the women's quadruple sculls.

Women's marathon - in pictures
Images from the women's marathon where Naoko Takahashi of Japan won in comfortable fashion with a new Olympics record time of 2:23:14

Golden sprints - in pictures
Maurice Greene and Marion Jones were in a class of their own over 100m. Images from Stadium Australia tell the story of the US double.

Men's coxless four final - in pictures
A fifth Olympic gold for Steve Redgrave and a third for Matthew Pinsent as Great Britain win the coxless fours final at Sydney.

Swimming record breakers
Images from a week of action in the Sydney International Aquatic Centre, where records were smashed on a regular basis.

Olympics day eight - in pictures
All eyes may have been on Penrith Lake and Stadium Australia but day eight in Sydney offered plenty more Olympic action.

Olympics day seven - in pictures
Images of the highlights from Sydney as the first week of Olympic action draws to a close.

Swimming - day seven in pictures
Images from day seven's swimming events in the Sydney Aquatic Centre.

Track stars take their marks
Images from the first day of the Olympic track action at the Stadium Australia in Sydney.

Individual three-day event - in pictures
David O'Connor from the United States takes gold in the individual three-day event ahead of Australia's Andrew Hoy.

Sydney 2000 in pictures - The weird and wonderful
Images from Thursday's Olympic action and strange moments.

Gymnast stars of the SuperDome
Images from the men's and women's all-round gymnastics held at the Sydney SuperDome.

Redgrave parts 1-5 - in pictures
The story of Steve Redgrave's five Olympic gold medals, the last three with Matthew Pinsent.

Brits badminton bronze - in pictures
Images from the mixed doubles bronze medal play-off where Simon Archer and Jo Goode became the first Britons to win an Olympic badminton medal.

Swimming - day six in pictures
Images from the day six's swimming events in the Sydney Aquatic Centre.

Olympics - day six highlights in pictures
Britain battle for badmington bronze, Redgrave marches on, archery gold and Venus Williams progresses.

Shooting picture gallery
Day six action

British gold - in pictures
Britain picks up a second gold of the games, as Richard Faulds hits the target in the double trap shooting.

Swimming action - day five in pictures
Images from the day's swimming events in the Sydney Aquatic Centre.

Olympics - day five in pictures
Action from Sydney as Great Britain add to their medal tally and the Olympic spirit lives on.

Canoeing silver - in pictures
Paul Ratcliffe capsized during his canoeing final - and Britain's world number one was relieved to have won silver.

Judo silver - in pictures
Britain picked up two silver medals on day five of the Olympics - this is how Kate Howey won silver.

Three-day eventing - in pictures
Australia retain their gold fighting off a good challange from Great Britain, who improve on their performance at Atlanta to take silver.

Olympics - day four in pictures
Records galore at the pool on day four, while Britain's three-day event team take silver and Pat Rafter wows the home crowd in the tennis.

Swimming day four - in pictures
Images of all the action from day four in the Sydney Aquatic centre.

49er class sailing - in pictures
The spectacular sails made a for a visually stunning event on the second day of sailing from Rushcutter Bay.

Olympics - day three in pictures
An Olympic record for the GB men's cycling pursuit team while Pakistan condemned the British men's hockey team to their worst Olympic defeat.

Olympics - day two in pictures
Day two includes swimming, gymnastics, badminton, shooting - and a second medal for Britain.

Queally's Gold - in pictures
Images from the Dunc Gray velodrome in Sydney where Britain's Jason Queally won gold in the 1km time trial final on day one of the Olympics.

Ian Thorpe's Double Gold - in pictures
Images from the International Aquatic Centre in Sydney where Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe won two gold medals in the 400m freestyle and 4x400m freestyle.

Opening ceremony - in pictures
Images from the spectacular ceremony in Sydney to mark the start of the 27th Olympic Games.

The Olympics in pictures
A look back at some of the great names and moments from the history of the Olympics

The best of British
BBC Sport Online selects Britain's ten best hopes of bringing an Olympic medal home from Sydney.

Ten to follow in Sydney
Who will be the headline makers in Sydney? BBC Sport Online picks 10 potential medal winners.

British Olympic winners
A look back in pictures at some of Britain's gold medal winners from past Olympics.

Atlanta '96 in pictures
The Centennial Games were hosted by Atlanta and produced some immense sporting achievements, not least from the double gold winner Michael Johnson.

Barcelona '92 in pictures
Eight years ago Barcelona hosted one of the most successful Games and there was plenty of British success too.

In pictures: Sydney's Olympic countdown
Over 10,000 athletes and more than 52,000 Olympic officials prepare to launch the greatest sporting show on Earth.