奥林匹克的多元文化 Animals: One of the mascots for the 2000 Olympics, in Australia, is the echidna. This mammal is also known as a spiny anteater and represents Australia\'s land. One of the mascots for the 2000 Olympics, in Australia, was the kookaburra. This bird sounds like a laughing human and represents the air over Australia. One of the mascots for the 2000 Olympics, in Australia, was the platypus. This animal is only one of two mammals that lay eggs; it represents the waters of Australia. 吉祥物： 2000年澳大利亚奥运会吉祥物之一是针鼹鼠。它是一种食蚁动物，象征澳大利亚的大地。 吉祥物之二是笑翠鸟。它叫声如人笑，象征澳大利亚的天空。 吉祥物之三是鸭嘴兽。他是两种产卵的哺乳动物之一，象征澳大利亚的水域。
Entertainment: In high school, Oscar-winning actress Hilary Swank was an excellent athlete. She competed in Junior Olympics in swimming, and placed fifth in the Washington state all-around gymnastics. MGM film bathing beauty and box-office darling Esther Williams arrived on the Hawaiian island Kauai to film the musical, Pagan Love Song,(1950) co-starring Howard Keel, Rita Moreno, and Philip Costa. Overall, this film was fairly routine, but in it, Williams performed her first salt water swimming ballet. Williams was a great swimming athlete who had qualified for three events in the 1940 Olympics, only to have them cancelled by World War II. 娱乐 奥斯卡奖得主希拉里-斯万克在读高中时是一位优秀的运动员。她参加了高中奥林匹克游泳赛，在华盛顿州体操全能赛中排名第五。
History In a first-of-its-kind business arrangement, Visa International signed a $3 million deal in 1993 to become the official credit card of Atlanta, the host city of the 1996 Summer Olympics. 历史 1993年，史无前例地，维萨国际公司签下了价值三百万美元的合同，成为1996年奥运会主办城市-亚特兰大的官方信用卡。
Law and customs Married women were forbidden by law to watch, let alone compete, in the ancient Olympics. The penalty was death. The Greeks believed that the presence of wives in olympia would defile Greece\'s oldest religious shrine there, although young girls were allowed in. Ironically, the shrine that was off-limits to married women was dedicated to a woman, the fertility goddess Rhea, who was the mother of the supreme god Zeus. Women who broke the rule were thrown from a nearby cliff. 法律和习俗 古奥林匹克运动会期间，法律禁止已婚妇女观看，更不用说参加比赛了。违者处死。但年轻未婚女子可以进入会场。古希腊人认为已婚妇女出现在会场会玷污建在那的最古老的神祠。但具有讽刺意味的是，这座成为已婚妇女禁地的神祠是为一位妇女-生育女神瑞亚-而建。她是万神之神-宙斯的母亲。犯禁的妇女将会被从附近的悬崖上扔下去。
