Final Report

Fireworks light up the
Sydney Opera House to
bring the Closing Ceremony
of the Games of the
XXVII Olympiad to an end
© Getty Images/Matt Turner
2001–2004 expenditure
US$ 23,600,000
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Olympic Games Participation
NOCs’ largest gathering
All the efforts of the IOC and Olympic Solidarity to promote and develop sport are ultimately
aimed at ensuring the success of the world’s greatest youth sports festival, the
Olympic Games. According to the mission and role given to the NOCs in the Olympic
Charter, the NOCs have the exclusive right to represent their countries at the Olympic Games
and every NOC is obliged to participate in the Games of the Olympiad by sending a team
of athletes. The assistance programme designed to help the NOCs participate in the
Games has existed for 20 years, and is still based on two fairly different yet complementary
aims: to help foster the universal spirit of the Olympic Games by guaranteeing
the participation of all NOCs and to give additional support to NOCs which contribute proportionally
to the development and success of the Games.
The tables containing the financial results that appear on pages 60 to 73 show the overall
amount paid to each NOC for its participation in the Games of the XXVII Olympiad in Sydney
in 2000, the XIX Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City in 2002 and the meetings of the
Chefs de Mission in Salt Lake City in 2001 and Athens in 2003. Although the subsidies
for NOCs’ participation in the Games of the XXVII Olympiad in Sydney were paid in the
year of the Games (2000), the relevant budget is included under the 2001–2004 quadrennial
plan because it is funded through income from TV rights to the Sydney and Salt Lake
City Games which was earmarked for the development of the 2001–2004 quadrennial plan.
That is why the tables refer to the NOCs’ participation in the Sydney Games rather than
those held in Athens, which will be mentioned in the next quadrennial plan.
Olympic Solidarity financial assistance is given in three phases:
● Before the Games: travel expenses for one person per NOC to attend the meeting
between the Chefs de Mission and the Organising Committee of the Olympic Games;
● During the Games: travel expenses for a certain number of athletes and officials, subsidy
for logistical expenses and subsidy towards the transport and accommodation of NOC
Presidents and Secretaries General;
● After the Games: subsidy to the NOCs for their participation in and contribution to the
success of the Games.
NOCs / Athletes who participated in the Olympic Games
Continent Games of the XXVII Olympiad Sydney 2000 XIX Olympic Winter Games Salt Lake City 2002
NOCs Athletes NOCs Athletes
Africa 53 868 3 3
America 42 2,009 12 401
Asia 42 1,684 15 293
Europe 48 5,276 44 1,666
Oceania 14 814 3 36
Total 199 10,651 77 2,399