ABSTRACT
Hosting the 2000 Olympic Games has given Sydney a legacy of large, state-ofthe-art, sporting stadiums sufficient to meet a range of post-Olympic sporting needs for decades to come. This legacy was always secondary to the primary objective of providing facilities to successfully handle the Games themselves. But the New South Wales government, the provider of Olympic venues and facilities, cited it as a major benefit to the people of the state to increase popular support. The post-Olympic situation has assumed particular importance because the two major new Olympic stadiums involved significant private sector funding which depended on substantial spectator numbers after the Olympics.
