Olympics By The Numbers
All the hard work put in to getting the Sydney Olympics together is now being put to work.
Millions of people crowded to see the games kick off, and those who were running the scene were well-prepared.
News Specialist Bruce Lindsay gives us the games by the numbers.
To see the sheer logistics involved in hosting an Olympics, it gives you pause, knowing that Salt Lake does this next.
Of course, the winter games are somewhat smaller, but consider these Olympic figures:
Ten thousand-300 athletes will compete in 28 sports--the most ever.
Athletes and coaches will stay in Olympic Village, and they will be very hungry.
Australian tennis champ Liz Smiley is spokesperson for the Sydney games.
If you did their dirty laundry in your washing machine at home, it would take you 264 years to get everything clean. That does not include bed sheets.
And the athletes will be provided with enough toilet paper to roll across the Australian continent four times.
This is the largest public event in Australia's history.
David Wilson is in charge of feeding the nearly half million visitors a day expected at Olympic Park.
To keep the crowds safe, there are 12,500 security people, from cops to commandos.
And here's a number to warm a true couch potato's heart: If you could watch on television, every single Olympic event, and you spent eight hours a day, it would take you more than a year to see it all.
If you could only make that arrangement, NBC would be very happy.
