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2000 Sydney Summer Games
10651 Athletes, 199 Countries, 300 Events

The Summer Olympics went Down Under for the first time since Melbourne in 1956 and ended up being one of the most successful Games on record. One thing is for sure╤it was the biggest. 10,649 athletes competed in Sydney and a record 80 nations won a medal. Six new events were added for the Sydney Games including synchronized diving, triathlon, and women's weightlifting. In all, a record number of athletes took part in 300 events.

The 2000 Games were also one of the biggest in history as far as the Ivy League is concerned. The Ancient Eight sent 52 representatives to Australia for the Olympics, the secondhighest mark ever. The League also brought home 12 medals. One gold, six silver, and five bronze medals were proudly hung around the necks of Ivy Leaguers.

The one gold belonged to Penn wrestler Brandon Slay '98. Slay was defeated in the gold medal bout by Alexander Leipold but three weeks after the Olympics, Slay was presented with the gold on the Today Show after Leipold had tested positive for the anabolic steroid nandrolone. To make the gold medal round, Slay defeated defending Olympic champion Buvaisar Saytyev in the second match of the preliminary pool.

In the inaugural women's modern pentathlon Yale's Emily DeRiel ('90) took silver after claiming first place in both the shooting and riding portions of the event. In fact, DeRiel's worst finish was a ninth in fencing but a dominating crosscountry run by Oxford teammate Stephanie Cook gave Cook the gold by a narrow eightpoint margin. DeRiel has a master's in English literature from Oxford.

The Ivy League picked up its second ever medal in men's basketball when Dartmouth's Crawford Palmer earned a secondplace finish with the French team. Palmer scored ten points in the gold medal game. It was the first time an Ivy Leaguer had earned an Olympic medal in basketball since Princeton's Bill Bradley '65 captained the 1964 Tokyo squad to gold.