ABSTRACT
It is important from the outset to place Sydney’s Olympic vision and its legacy – what has been promised and what has been realised – in the context of the time. Sydney’s Olympic vision was framed in the early 1990s, when legacy was of much lesser importance in Olympic discourse than it is now. Legacy was then a far more informal and even haphazard practice. Although legacy was enshrined in Sydney’s bid – making it more attractive to the international Olympic community and saleable to the host community – it was taken as a given which would occur as a matter of course after the Games. Few plans were put in place to implement and evaluate Olympic legacy after the Games and there was no designated post-Games authority to operate in this period.
