Olympic rings from Sydney Harbour Bridge sell on ebay

[WorldNews]

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The giant Olympic rings that were a centrepiece of the 2000 Games, adorning the Sydney Harbour Bridge, have been sold on ebay after being discovered gathering dust in a factory. The five massive rings, measuring 70 metres by 40 metres (229 by 131 feet) and weighing 40 to 50 tonnes, were listed online by Bernard Maas who found them abandoned in a shed on a property he bought in New South Wales state. They were made by a firm based in Goulburn, 200 kilometres (124 miles) southwest of Sydney, which owned the factory that Maas brought. "It was a really good result," Mass told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

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