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Tuesday, 17 July, 2001, 09:55 GMT 10:55 UK
From the weird to the wonderful, the Olympics were full of fun and games for all involved.
Images from the closing ceremony of the Sydney Games.
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.
Images of Scotland's medallists from the Olympic Games in Sydney.
Audley Harrison overcomes a serious hand injury to become Britain's first boxing gold medallist since 1968. Images from his golden performance in Sydney.
The supporters of the world have united in making Sydney the most successful games ever.
The games have not been a happy time for all those competitors who tested positive for drugs and those who tasted defeat.
The Sydney Olympics have produced many outstanding performances. BBC Sport Online brings you images of the stars that captivated the world.
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.
Images from day fifteen of the Olympic Games in Sydney.
Cameroon earned their first ever Olympic gold medal after beating Spain in the men's football final.
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.
Images from the 14th day of the Olympic game in Sydney.
Shirley Robertson won Britain's first sailing gold of the games, quickly followed by Ben Ainslie. Images from Rushcutter's Bay tell the story.
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.
Images from the athletics events on day thirteen of the Sydney Olympics, where Britain's Darren Campbell took silver in the men's 200m.
Images away from Stadium Australia round up the action from events including sychronised diving, tennis and sailing.
Images from the second day of competition in the decathlon, with Britain's Dean Macey battling bravely for a medal.
Images from the best of the day's Olympic action as the athletes come back on track following their rest day.
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.
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.
Former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich powers away in the closing stages to claim gold in the Olympic men's road race.
Revelling in the glory, BBC Sport Online brings you images of the British athletes who will return from Sydney with that illustrious medal.
Images of Britain's silver medal winning Olympians from Sydney 2000.
Images of Britain's Olympic bronze medal winners at Sydney 2000.
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.
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.
Jonathan Edwards leaped his way to triple jump gold at Sydney 2000. Images from Stadium Australia tell the story of Olympic success.
Cathy Freeman fulfils the dreams of Australia with gold in the Olympic 400m while Britain's Katharine Merry claims bronze.
Denise Lewis won the heptathlon gold after hanging on in the final event. Images from Stadium Australia tell the story of a glorious gold.
Images from the Olympic Open sailing 49er class race, where Britain's Ian Barker and Simon Hiscocks won a silver medal.
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.
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.
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
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.
A fifth Olympic gold for Steve Redgrave and a third for Matthew Pinsent as Great Britain win the coxless fours final at Sydney.
Images from a week of action in the Sydney International Aquatic Centre, where records were smashed on a regular basis.
All eyes may have been on Penrith Lake and Stadium Australia but day eight in Sydney offered plenty more Olympic action.
Images of the highlights from Sydney as the first week of Olympic action draws to a close.
Images from day seven's swimming events in the Sydney Aquatic Centre.
Images from the first day of the Olympic track action at the Stadium Australia in Sydney.
David O'Connor from the United States takes gold in the individual three-day event ahead of Australia's Andrew Hoy.
Images from Thursday's Olympic action and strange moments.
Images from the men's and women's all-round gymnastics held at the Sydney SuperDome.
The story of Steve Redgrave's five Olympic gold medals, the last three with Matthew Pinsent.
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.
Images from the day six's swimming events in the Sydney Aquatic Centre.
Britain battle for badmington bronze, Redgrave marches on, archery gold and Venus Williams progresses.
Day six action
Britain picks up a second gold of the games, as Richard Faulds hits the target in the double trap shooting.
Images from the day's swimming events in the Sydney Aquatic Centre.
Action from Sydney as Great Britain add to their medal tally and the Olympic spirit lives on.
Paul Ratcliffe capsized during his canoeing final - and Britain's world number one was relieved to have won silver.
Britain picked up two silver medals on day five of the Olympics - this is how Kate Howey won silver.
Australia retain their gold fighting off a good challange from Great Britain, who improve on their performance at Atlanta to take silver.
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.
Images of all the action from day four in the Sydney Aquatic centre.
The spectacular sails made a for a visually stunning event on the second day of sailing from Rushcutter Bay.
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.
Day two includes swimming, gymnastics, badminton, shooting - and a second medal for Britain.
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.
Images from the International Aquatic Centre in Sydney where Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe won two gold medals in the 400m freestyle and 4x400m freestyle.
Images from the spectacular ceremony in Sydney to mark the start of the 27th Olympic Games.
A look back at some of the great names and moments from the history of the Olympics
BBC Sport Online selects Britain's ten best hopes of bringing an Olympic medal home from Sydney.
Who will be the headline makers in Sydney?
BBC Sport Online picks 10 potential medal winners.
A look back in pictures at some of Britain's gold medal winners from past Olympics.
The Centennial Games were hosted by Atlanta and produced some immense sporting achievements, not least from the double gold winner Michael Johnson.
Eight years ago Barcelona hosted one of the most successful Games and there was plenty of British success too.
Over 10,000 athletes and more than 52,000 Olympic officials prepare to launch the greatest sporting show on Earth.
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