XXVII Olympic Games

The Ukrainian Olympic Joint Team during the ceremonial opening of the XXVII Olympic Games on the stadium "Australia" on Friday, September 15, 2000, in the capital of Australia - Sydney. The mass theatrical performance, which lasted 3 hours was carried out on the stadium, which seats 110 spectators. 13 thousands of actors the 3000-men Olympic Orchestra took part in the ceremony. That orchestra numbers musicians from 20 states from the USA to Fiji . The teams -participants of the Olympiad - marched along the field of stadium. The Greek sportsmen passed the stadium the first, the others - in accordance with the alphabet. The home team -Australians were the last in the ceremony. The culmination of the show was the ignition of the Olympic Fire, which was supplied to Sydney on the large catamaran. Photo by Nikolay Bochok/ UNIAN