Adriana Belhar and Shelda train at Barra da Tijuca beach in Rio de Janeiro, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2000. The teammates are three-time beach volleyball champions and are the favorites to win the gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. (AP/ Photo Renzo Gostoli)

Juan-Antonio Samaranch, president of the International Olympic Commitee, left, is greeted by French President Jacques Chirac Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2000, at the Elysees Palace in Paris. Paris is a finalist in the selection process for the 2008 Olympic Games. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Stephen Johns carries the Olympic flame through a large crowd at a local shopping center assisted by escort runner Jonathon Glasson Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2000 in Tuggerah, NSW, Australia. The Olympic Torch is spending 100 days travelling around Australia on it's way to Sydney for the opening ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games on Sept.15. (AP Photo/Greg Garay, SOGOC)

Philip Staub carries the Olympic flame through a large crowd at a local shopping center assisted by escort runner Jonathon Glasson Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2000 in Tuggerah, NSW, Australia. The Olympic Torch is spending 100 days travelling around Australia on it's way to Sydney for the opening ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games on Sept.15. (AP Photo/Greg Garay, SOGOC)

Matthew Hatton, the Australian who designed the 2000 Olympic Games' mascots, sits in his tiny studio on Aug. 6, 2000 with the mascots from left Olly, a Kookaburra kingfisher; Millie, an Echidna spiny anteater; and Syd, a platypus. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

eADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS AUG. 19-20--FILE--A family of tourists shop for Olympic games T-shirts at a shop next to Olympic Stadium inside Sydney Olympic Park in Sydney, Australia, on Aug. 6, 2000. To the left are the official Olympic mascots Olly, a Kookaburra kingfisher, Syd, a platypus, and Millie, an Echidna spiny anteater. Olympic organizers have opened the park to the public weeks ahead of the Olympic Games to be held in Australia from September 15 through October 1. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

Australian artist Ken Done, right, displays his painting of an Australian native flower on a wharf near the Sydney Opera House in Sydney Australia, Friday, Sept. 1, 2000. Former Australian Olympic swimmer Michelle Ford-Eriksson, left, looks on. Each athlete who wins a medal at the Sydney 2000 Olympics will receive an exclusive print of Done's painting. The painting in center will be featured on the front page of the Opening Ceremony program .(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)Y

Australian artist Ken Done, second from right, displays his painting of an Australian native flower in Sydney, Australia, Friday, Sept. 1, 2000. Ric Birch, far right, the SOCOG Director of Ceremonies, who will control the opening and closing ceremonies of the Sydney 2000 Olympics looks on. Each athlete who wins a medal at the Sydney 2000 Olympics will receive an exclusive print of Done's painting. The painting will be featured on the front page of the Opening Ceremony's program.(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Natham Peckham carries the Olympic flame at Western Plains Zoo while an inquisitive giraffe looks on, Saturday, Sept 2, 2000 in Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia. The Olympic Torch continues to be carried by bearers around Australia on it's way to Sydney for the opening ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games on 15 September. (AP photo/Greg Garay, SOCOG)

Natham Peckham carries the Olympic flame at Western Plains Zoo while an inquisitive giraffe looks on, Saturday, Sept 2, 2000 in Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia. The Olympic Torch continues to be carried by bearers around Australia on it's way to Sydney for the opening ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games on 15 September. (AP photo/Greg Garay)

An Aboriginal artist performs a dance around Ngaraka, or shrine for unknown Aborigini ancestors Friday Sept. 1, 2000 in Sydney. The event, paying homage to the Aboriginal people whose remains were taken from their physical and spiritual resting places, is commissioned for the visual arts program of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts Festival. The Olympic games will start from Sept. 15 and end on Oct. 1. The object in center is depicting a traditional funeral which carried out by Aboriginal people of wrapping the body of the diseased in paperbark and placing the parcel on a fork stick platform.(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

First time blood donor Phil Wall, wearing an Olympic tee-shirt, inspects his arm after giving blood in Sydney Friday, Sept. 1, 2000. The Sydney Olympic organizing committee denied Friday causing "bad blood" by carpeting the Red Cross for the unauthorized use of the word "Olympics" in a Red Cross advertising campaign requesting blood donors. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)