Editing 2000 Summer Olympics (section)

==Host city selection==
{{main|Bids for the 2000 Summer Olympics}}

Sydney won the right to host the Games on 24 September 1993, after being selected over [[Beijing]], [[Berlin]], [[Istanbul]], and [[Manchester]] in four rounds of voting, at the 101st [[IOC Session]] in [[Monte Carlo]], [[Monaco]]. [[Brasília]], [[Milan]], and [[Tashkent]] made bids before deciding to withdraw during the bidding process.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-09-22 |title=When Sydney were big winners in Monte Carlo |url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1140939/sydney-olympic-vote-1993-blog |access-date=2024-09-08 |website=www.insidethegames.biz}}</ref> The Australian city of [[Melbourne]] which also hosted the [[1956 Summer Olympics]] had lost out to [[Atlanta]] for the [[1996 Summer Olympics]] three years earlier.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aldaver.com/votes.html|title=IOC VOTE HISTORY|website=www.aldaver.com|access-date=6 October 2011|archive-date=25 May 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080525070757/http://www.aldaver.com/votes.html|url-status=usurped}}</ref> Beijing would later be selected to host the [[2008 Summer Olympics]] eight years later on 13 July 2001 and the [[2022 Winter Olympics]] twenty-two years later on 31 July 2015. Milan would also go on to win the [[2026 Winter Olympics]] along with [[Cortina d'Ampezzo]] twenty-six years later on 24 June 2019. Beijing's loss to Sydney was seen as a "significant blow" to an "urgent political priority" of the [[Chinese Communist Party]] leadership having mounted the most intense and expensive candidacy campaign at the date so far (this includes the Summer and Winter Games). Although it is unknown as two members of the International Olympic Committee voted for Sydney over Beijing in 1993, it appears that an important role was played by [[Human Rights Watch]]'s campaign to "stop Beijing" because of China's human rights record and international isolation following the [[1989 Tiananmen Square protests]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/24/sports/olympics-there-s-no-joy-in-beijing-as-sydney-gets-olympics.html|title=OLYMPICS; There's No Joy in Beijing as Sydney Gets Olympics|newspaper=The New York Times|date=24 September 1993|last1=Tyler|first1=Patrick E.|access-date=22 August 2021|archive-date=5 October 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091005233713/http://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/24/sports/olympics-there-s-no-joy-in-beijing-as-sydney-gets-olympics.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Many in China were angry at what they saw as U.S.-led interference in the vote, and the outcome contributed to rising [[anti-Western sentiment in China]] and a new phase in the tensions in [[Sino-American Relations|Sino-American relations]].<ref>{{Cite journal | doi=10.1177/0022009416667791|title = Harnessing Human Rights to the Olympic Games: Human Rights Watch and the 1993 'Stop Beijing' Campaign| journal=Journal of Contemporary History| volume=53| issue=2| pages=415–438|year = 2018|last1 = Keys|first1 = Barbara| url=http://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/bitstream/11343/217038/5/Keys%20Human%20Rights%20JCH%20author%20version.pdf|hdl = 11343/217038|s2cid = 159945661|hdl-access=free| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190924105812/https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/bitstream/handle/11343/217038/Keys%20Human%20Rights%20JCH%20author%20version.pdf?sequence=5| archive-date=24 September 2019| url-status=live}}</ref>

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|+ 2000 Summer Olympics bidding results<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gamesbids.com/eng/past.html |title=Past Olympic Host Cities List |website=GamesBids.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110124022022/http://www.gamesbids.com/eng/past.html |archive-date=24 January 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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! rowspan=2 | City
! rowspan=2 | Country
! colspan=4 style="background:silver;"| Round
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! style="background:silver;"| 1
! style="background:silver;"| 2
! style="background:silver;"| 3
! style="background:silver;"| 4
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|[[Sydney]] || {{flag|Australia}} || style="text-align:center;"|30 || style="text-align:center;"|30 || style="text-align:center;"|37 || style="text-align:center;"|'''45'''
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|[[Beijing]]||{{flag|China|}} || style="text-align:center;"|'''32''' || style="text-align:center;"|'''37'''|| style="text-align:center;"|'''40''' || style="text-align:center;"|43
|-
|[[Manchester]] || {{flag|Great Britain}} || style="text-align:center;"|11 || style="text-align:center;"|13 || style="text-align:center;"|11 || style="text-align:center;"|—
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|[[Berlin]] || {{flag|Germany}} || style="text-align:center;"|9 || style="text-align:center;"|9 || style="text-align:center;"|— || style="text-align:center;"|—
|-
|[[Istanbul]] || {{flag|Turkey}} || style="text-align:center;"|7 || style="text-align:center;"|—|| style="text-align:center;"|— || style="text-align:center;"|—
|}