IN THEIR OWN WORDS

The 2000 Sydney Games

Legacy Interview Project

2000-2020

The Sydney Games 2000 Legacy Interview Project 2000-2020 is a volunteer project of interviews conducted by Katharine McLennan, former Head of Operational Integration for the Sydney Olympics and Paralympics (worked there for 1996-2000). These interviews were conducted in September and October of 2020. In each of the videos of the project, Katharine interviews members of the Sydney 2000 Olympics and Paralympics on legacy of the Sydney Games to: 1) Sydney and Australia 2) Global sporting events for the decades between 2000 and 2020 3) The interviewee's own career.

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Volume 1 - Bob Elphinston

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This is Volume One of the Legacy Interview Project for the 20th Anniversary of Sydney 2000 Olympics and Paralympics. In this video, I interview Bob Elphinstom OAM. Bob wa...

Volume 2 - Venue Management Memories

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I shot this video in 2000 with a home camcorder, wondering around the venues in my morning breaks. It was an honour to visit the venue teams all over Sydney and to see fo...

Volume 3 - John Quayle

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This is John Quayle, my boss for four years at the Sydney Olympics and Paralympics (1996-2000). I have studied and taught leadership development for the last twenty years...

Volume 4 - Jim Sloman

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Katharine McLennan interviews Jim Sloman, who was the Chief Operating Officer of Sydney 2000 -- twenty years later on the legacy of the Games to Australia, the Games move...