Ecuador competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
Jefferson Pérez, who won a gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics, won 4th place in the 20km walk.
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“The very locusts and crickets of a summer day are but later or earlier glosses on the Dherma Sastra of the Hindoos, a continuation of the sacred code.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)