Martikan won silver in Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004, finishing second both times behind France's Tony Estanguet.
But Boyle said he would be most honoured if his spectacle was compared to the opening of Sydney 2000 - "a wonderful people's Games".
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In his time at DSW the number of Welsh athletes taking part in the Paralympics has risen from 17 in Sydney 2000 to 38 at London 2012.
Taking a walk from the Rocks, there was this fresh-faced chap with spectacles just alighting from the Sydney 2000 cruise ship after lunch on the high sea.
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Unlike his Olympic successor, Britain's Sydney 2000 champion Audley Harrison, he has a formidable record in professional boxing, winning 58 of his 61 fights -- 51 by knockout.
Serena Williams can also win double gold, which her older sister Venus achieved at Sydney 2000, as she seeks the only major title to elude her so far.
Wood coached Simon Archer and Joanne Goode to Britain's first Olympic badminton medal, a bronze in Sydney 2000, and Nathan Robertson and Gail Emms to their silver in Athens in 2004.
Schoneborn was the third winner of an event, which has only been a women's Olympic sport for eight years, after Britain's Stephanie Cook (Sydney 2000) and Zsuszanna Voros of Hungary (Athens 2004).
Federer reached the semifinals as a teenager at Sydney 2000 but lost in the playoff for the bronze, then crashed out in the second round in Athens and the last eight in Beijing.
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Harrison, a gold medallist in Sydney in 2000, believes victory could provide a springboard to greater things.
Her thirteenth-place finish in the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Canada qualified her for Sydney in 2000.
Dropped batons at the Atlanta Olympics (1996) and Sydney (2000), and the Edmonton World Champs (2001), and disqualification in Beijing.
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Brabants, who won bronze in Sydney in 2000, took the lead at about the halfway mark and surged ahead to win in 3:26.32 seconds.
Freeman won gold in the 400m final at the Games in Sydney in 2000 but has been plagued by injuries in the last 12 months.
The Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 were declared by former IOC supremo Juan Antonio Samaranch (and pretty much everyone else who mattered) to be "the best Games ever".
In Sydney, 2000, the tennis event was completely sold out for the first time as Yevgeny Kafelnikov and Venus Williams came through strong fields to win the singles gold medals.
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The next section is a hall of torches from every modern Olympic Games since 1936 -- a range of designs that include some that look like broom sticks (Atlanta, 1996), machetes (Sydney, 2000) and lightsabers (Tokyo, 1964).
Fry was a Commonwealth Games champion in 1998 and a Sydney Olympian in 2000.
The winner was sprinter Susanthika Jayasinghe, who won bronze in the women's 200m at the Sydney Olympics in 2000.
Sir Chris also won a silver medal at the Sydney Olympics in 2000.
The International Olympic Committee also is reviewing the evidence and could revoke Armstrong's bronze medal from the 2000 Sydney Games.
Marion Jones became the first woman to ever win five medals at a single Olympics at the 2000 Sydney Games.
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She has threatened to take legal action if she is not handed Marion Jones' 100m gold from the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
The International Olympic Committee is also reviewing the evidence and could consider revoking Armstrong's bronze medal from the 2000 Sydney games.
He has been runner-up in nine tournaments, including the 2000 Sydney Olympics -- where he beat a teenage Federer in the semis.
Her previous claim to fame was deliberately falling during the 2000 Sydney Olympics 1500 meter final when she realized she could not win.
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"The FIG conducted an inquiry which showed that the athlete was only 14 years old during the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, " the IOC said.
One of the game's greatest ever players, Roger Federer, met his wife Mirka when the pair represented Switzerland at the Sydney Olympics in 2000.
She defeated Indonesia's Raema Lisa Rumbewas, who was second in the 48kg class at the 2000 Sydney Games, while Mabel Mosquera of Colombia took bronze.
The International Olympic Committee announced Thursday that it will investigate whether to strip the 41-year-old of the bronze medal he won at the 2000 Sydney Games.
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