Just before the start of the Sydney 2000 Olympics, the Olympic flame had been traversing the world from Greece (do they really allow naked flames on aircraft?), all around Australia, and finally through Sydney for a few days.
On this day twenty years ago I managed to see the torch relay twice, and my camera documented it three times. NFI who any of the people were. If it had been now it would be easy to find this stuff online, but not so easy to find stuff from back then.
First up was in Marrickville, a kilometre or two from where I lived. It was headed southeast down Marrickville road, and turned left onto Victoria Road, where I saw it. I went and saw it before heading to work.
At lunch time, I walked up to Randwick from work (along with half the Eastern Suburbs) to see it coming down Avoca St? Belmore Rd?
Then I passed my camera off to Daniel, who took it into the city where it was *epic* - epic crowds and festivities for the celebration. Apparently there was even Steve Waugh.
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