24-vol set of interviews of some of the amazing people of the 2000 Sydney Olympic & Para Games, with each starting with film montage of Games History

Happy 22nd Anniversary of the Olympics and Paralympics all. SOCOG: Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games

Here is a link https://vimeo.com/showcase/sydney2000olympics to the 24-volume video I made through Covid.

Each volume is an interview I did with some of our many characters from the Sydney 2000 Games -- each talking about their own function -- its history, their experience in Sydney, and how Sydney influenced the last 22 years in their subject -- especially influencing their own career.

The interviews start with a 5-minute montage of film, photos, and music that relate to the topic of the interview. This includes a lot of film footage and photo from the Olympics' beginning (776 BC and 1896) and Paralympics (1960) onwards.

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Volume 0: A preview of what is in the 24 videos to follow

Volume 1: Bob Elphinston, Employee #1 of SOCOG and our GM Of Sport

Volume 2: An old and homemade video that I took on my Handycam that shows most of the venues behind the scenes with our people during the Games -- the backstage view

Volume 3: John Quayle, GM of Venues and Precincts

Volume 4: Jim Sloman, Chief Operating Officer

Volume 5: Sandy Hollway, CEO -- Sandy does a great job at talking about the impact of Sydney 2000 on Australia

Volume 6: Richard Palfreyman Chief Press Officer --introduced by 5-min montage history of Olympics Press

Volume 7: Patsy Trethowan, Program Manager of Medical -- introduced by a 5-min montage about the 5 most dangerous Olympic sports - do you know what they are?

Volume 8: Nicki Vance Prog Manager of Doping Control, introduced by a 5-min montage about the history of Doping Control and chatting - with some of the famous scandals

Volume 9: Kathryn Louise Bendall & Wendi Balbi - Kathryn was head of the illustrious Pioneer Volunteers and Wendi was a Pioneer Volunteers -- introduced by a 5-min montage of volunteers through many Games

Volume 10: Rob Abernethy, who was Ops Manager of the Sydney Aquatic Centre and went on to head up many Games venues and other sporting venues --introduced by a 5-min montage about the history of both world swimming and then Australian swimming

Volume 11: Ron Murphy, GM of Logistics, introduced by 5-min montage of all the amazing statistics of THINGS we procure in the Games --I'm talking HUGE--6000 km cable, 3000 cars, 500 gold arts, 30,000 phones, 4000 payphones, 25,000 mobile phones, 99000 PCs, 175,000 rolls of film, 35 million pieces of paper, 60,000 meals a day at the Village, 75,000 litres of milk, 300 tonnes of fruit and veggies, 25,000 loaves of bread and the list goes on

Volume 12: John O'Sullivan, Prog Manager of Paralympic Ops Integration -- a wonderful reflection of the Paralympics introduced by a 5-min montage on Paralympics athletes in 2000-- Australian athletes, Competition Managers. photos of the athletes in their competition for each sport and the reminder that 2000 was the first time ONE TEAM produced the Olympics and Paralympics event together

Volume 13: Rob Forsyth, Prog Mgr of Workforce Planning and Industrial Revelations and Venue Manager of Softball and Baseball Blacktown -- introduced by a 5-min montage of how we planned the staffing levels of 120,000+ people in our Games, the extraordinary and historic collaboration with 70 unions and great photos of the Blacktown

Volume 14: Kerrie Nash, Program Mangram Manager of HR and Workforce Planning, introduced by 5-min montage celebrating the continuously increasing participation of women in all aspects of the Games -- leaders, athletes, volunteers, officials, IOC, press great photos of the next few Games

Volume 15: Simon Balderstone GM Exec Office --introduced by a 5-min montage that takes us through the history of our Sydney 2000 bid which actually starts from 1965-- and just a clip from when we were awarded the 2032 Brisbane Games

Volume 16: Lois Appleby, CEO, Sydney Paralympic Organising Committee, introduced by 5-min montage

Volume 17: Tom Sloane, Manager of Project Management and Special Tasks, who talks about how our Games influenced the planning of all the Games to come through all our people who went on to work in the last 22 years of the Games, introduced by 5-min montage

Volume 18: Ralph Ord, Main Events veteran covering events over decades, in 2000, working under Tim Macy at the Darling Harbour precinct -- introduced by 5-min montage of Darling Harbour -- and reminding of ALL the venues of the Games

Volume 19: Jane Spring, Manager, Games Training, introduced by 5-min montage of the __ 100+ NON-Competition Venues (such as the Main Press Centre, International Broadcasting Centre, Sponsor Hospitality Centres, Sydney Airport, Uniform Distribution Centre, the Olympic Live precincts, the IOC/IPC Hotels, and the Athletes' Village and 75 training venues that we supply to the Games sometimes for months ahead for the 10,000 athletes.

Volume 20: Di Henry, GM, Torch Relays, introduced by a 5-min montage of the entire history of the Torch Relay --including some wonderful filming of our Torch Relay and Queen's Baton relay

Volume 21: Craig Lovett, CEO and Founder of CleanEvent and Service Provider of the Cleaning & Waste management of Sydney 2000 Games -- introduced by a 5-min montage of the unsung heroes who kept our venues sparking -- 3500 crew providing 3 million hours --and what we did to warrant the title of the First Environmental Games

Volume 22:Daryl Kerry, who was Stadium Australia Operations Manager and who is now CEO of the Accor Stadium, CommBank Stadium and VM of VenueLive -- introduced by 5-min montage of all of the Stadia from 1896 and Opening Ceremonies from 1908 ----- and a call-out of how Atlanta taught us so much -- the first English to English Games since

*A call out to Laurie Jackson, one of Australia's pioneers to the burgeoning Venue Management industry -- and the legendary growth of the Australian Venue Management industry that accelerated from 2000

Volume 23: A 51-minute film about the history of Olympic Broadcasting from 1936 onwards -- some incredible film provided by my friends from Sydney Olympic Broadcasting Operations -- that shows a film of broadcasting history -- including video footage of Hitler's 1936 Games and some incredible moments on film over the history of the Games to Sydney

Volume 24: me, Katharine McLennan, Prog Mgr, Operational Integration, interviewing myself on how we planned the operations of the venues over four years 1996-2000--the 40+ venues and the 40+ functions.

Our operating process was taken on by the Olympics following us, and is still used today (albeit with far more precision and planning tools!!!!) -- remember internet was only in place from 1996.

including a montage during the interview around ten minutes in, to the venues, and then again at 50 minute-mark, calling out each of the 40 Heads of Functions, 40 Competition Managers, 40 Venue Managers by photo, and the Australian perspective of 1956 Melbourne to Sydney 2000 and now 2032 Brisbane. Don't miss Johnny Farnham-- and his "You're the Voice" as the background to the beautifully made video for our Brisbane 2032 bid. We pray that his voice returns!!!

I am working on getting this set of videos into the NSW State Library, the National Library of Australia, and the Australian Centre for Olympic Studies in Sydney.

Thank you all -- and please enjoy these.

Love

Katharine (Kath) McLennan