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0 -- Medals won by the U.S. in table tennis, a medal event since 1988. |
Jenny Thompson is the United States' most-decorated female Olympian.
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1 -- Olympian has won back-to-back gold medals in the 10,000-meter run, Czechoslavakian Emil Zátopek (1948-52). Reigning gold medalist Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia is favored to become the second. |
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2 -- Members of the Magnificant Seven 1996 U.S. women's gymnastics team who returned for 2000 -- Dominique Dawes and Amy Chow. |
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3 -- Olympians have won medals in the Winter and Summer Games. Chris Witty, who won silver and bronze in speedskating, tried to win a medal in cycling but came up short in the 500 meters. Only American Eddie Eagen (boxing, 1920; bobsled, 1932) has won gold in Winter and Summer. |
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6 -- Gold medals won by swimmer Jenny Thompson to break a tie with speedskater Bonnie Blair for most golds won by an American woman. Thompson swam the third leg of the 400-meter freestyle relay final in Sydney to claim No. 6. |
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6.98 -- The difference, in seconds, between swimmer Ian Thorpe's world-record time in the 400-meter freestyle in Sydney and the winning time in the Atlanta Games (Danyon Loader, 3:47.97). |
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8 -- World records set in the first two days of swimming competition. |
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10 -- Americans have been on five Olympic teams. U.S. hoops member Teresa Edwards joins the club this year. Only 17 athletes have ever made five Olympic teams. |
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12 -- Years spent in the minor leagues by U.S. baseball Olympian John Cotton, whose triple scored the first U.S. run in a 4-2 first-game win over Japan. |
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13 -- Length, in years, of Alexander Karelin's winning streak in Greco-Roman wrestling. The Russian super heavyweight has won the past three Olympic gold medals and nine world championships. |
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17 -- Gold medals won the by U.S. male track athletes in 23 runnings of the 400 meters. |
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30 -- Number of times the world record in the women's pole vault has been broken -- by six women -- since 1991. |
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38 -- Percentage of Olympians who are female, up from 34 percent in 1996. |
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83 -- The most gold medals won by any nation at an Olympiad (1984, USA). The 1980 Soviet team won 80 golds. Both countries boycotted one another in those games. |
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96 -- The price, in U.S. dollars, to climb to the top of the Sydney Harbor Bridge on a weekend. It takes 1,310 steps and four ladders to get to a platform 442 feet, 44 stories, above the water. |
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112 -- Consecutive games won by the U.S. softball team, including Monday's 3-0 win over Cuba. |
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122 -- Medals awarded in the first modern Olympics in 1896. |
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213 -- Runs scored by the Cuban baseball team in 18 Olympic games, all victories, heading into the 2000 Games. The Cubans have allowed only 75 runs. |
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441.5 -- Hours of Olympic coverage planned by NBC and its cable partners MSNBC and CNBC. That's 100 hours more than the network devoted to the Barcelona and Atlanta Olympics combined. |
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900 -- Medals will be awarded in the 2000 Olympics. |
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2,019 -- All-time medals (832 gold) won by the United States heading into the Sydney Olympics. The defunct Soviet Union is in second place with 1,010. |
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12,700 -- People participated in the Opening Ceremonies. |
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50,000 -- Dollar bonus given to any athlete from Azerbaijan, a former Soviet Republic, who wins a gold medal. That is 25 times the average annual wage in that nation of 8 million people. |
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705,000,000 -- Dollars paid by NBC for the broadcast rights to the Sydney Games. CBS paid $394,000 for the rights to the 1960 Rome Olympics. |
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4,000,000,000 -- Estimated number of viewers for the Opening Ceremonies. |
