Basketball at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification place match. All six teams qualified for the Olympic Games, since Yugoslavia had already qualified as world champions in 1998. With Australia being qualified as host, the only spot for Oceania in the Olympic Games was decided in a single elimination game where New Zealand defeated Guam 125–43. Basketball at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification The men's qualification for the 2000 Olympic basketball tournament occurred from 1998–2000; all five FIBA (International Basketball Federation) zones sent in teams. The first qualifying tournament was the 1998 FIBA World Championship in which the champion was guaranteed of a place in the
2000 Summer Olympics Number Nine", the last part of the book is set at the Sydney 2000 Olympics. In Tom Clancy's thriller "Rainbow Six", the 2000 Olympic Games are the setting of a plot by eco-terrorists, who plan to use the games in order to spread a terrible new plague throughout the world. In Morris Gleitzman's children's book "Toad Rage", a cane toad travels to Sydney in a bid to become the Olympic mascot. 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and commonly known as Sydney 2000 or the Millennium Olympic Games/Games of