The year 2000
The modern Summer Olympic Games was started in 1896. There have been 28 Summer Olympic Games held. The modern Winter Olympic Games were started in 1924. There have been 20 Winter Olympic Games held.
The Winter Olympics have never been held in Australia. To date, only the Summer Olympics have been held in Australia: in Melbourne in 1956 and in Sydney in 2000.
Baseball and Softball will NOT be a part of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, but were a part of the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Australia has hosted summer Olympics twice. Once in 1956 and again in 2000. However, in 1956 games Equestrian events were held five months prior to the main event in Sweden as quarantine regulations did not allow the conduct of Equestrian events in Australia.
There are never been a summer olympic held in africa.
Badminton became an Olympic sport in 1992.
Lauren Jackson has been to four Olympic Games - 2000 (Sydney), 2004 (Athens), 2008 (Beijing), and 2012 (London)
IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch declared at the Closing Ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games,"I am proud and happy to proclaim that you have presented to the world the best Olympic Games ever." Subsequent Summer Olympics held in Athens and Beijing have been described by Samaranch's successor, Jacques Rogge, as "unforgettable, dream Games" and "truly exceptional" respectively - the practice of declaring games the "best ever" having been retired after the 2000 games.
they have competed in 12 summer games and 3 winter games
Water Polo is a sport which has been contested in every Olympic Games since the 1900 Summer Olympic Games in Paris - and will be contested again in 2012.
Diving was first introduced in the official program of the Summer Olympic Games at the 1904 Games of St. Louis and has been an Olympicsince.
Barcelona held the Summer Olympics in 1992.