Olympic rings from 2000 Games sold at auction

SYDNEY -- The five massive rings from the Sydney Harbour Bridge that were the focal point of celebrations during the 2000 Olympics have been sold for $17,000.

The steel rings, measuring 230 by 130 feet when assembled and weighing 110,000 pounds, had been in a storage shed south of Sydney. When businessman Bernard Maas recently bought the shed, he discovered the rings inside.

The steel rings, measuring 230 by 130 feet when assembled and weighing 110,000 pounds, had been in a storage shed south of Sydney. AP Photo/Rob Griffith

On the eBay auction site, the lot attracted 17 bids topped by a man in Sydney's Pyrmont, an inner-city suburb near the harbor.

"He put a bid in and ended up winning. ... He was having a bit of a chuckle and wasn't too sure what he was going to do," Maas said Thursday.

Maas said there was a crane above the shed where the rings were stored, so loading them into trucks would not be a problem.

"But the big job is transporting them, really, because they're such a massive structure," he said.

Maas said he was surprised by the purchaser of the rings, which remained in good condition.

"I thought if anything they might have gone to an institution or something," he said. "The Olympic precinct would have been nice, to see them in there."

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