Accor Stadium
Eighty-three-thousand seat arena built for an Olympic Games, home to a cauldron-lighting moment watched by billions.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Accor Stadium in Sydney returns to the opening ceremony of the 2000 Olympics, when sprinter Cathy Freeman stood in a ring of fire above a stalled ceremonial cauldron in front of a live global television audience. It follows the two engineers racing to get the machinery moving again while she waited motionless inside the flames. Listen for the crowd's silence as you look toward the eastern stand beside the track.
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