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Sydney

JUST when visiting Olympic athletes thought it was safe to compete in the
once polluted waters of Sydney Harbour, another menace has
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Triathlon and yachting athletes are scheduled to use the waters around the
Sydney Opera House and east of the Harbour Bridge three years from now. The
harbour鈥檚 new inhabitants could give the athletes an added incentive to break
speed records.

Earlier this month, a canoeist was thrown four metres when a shark, believed
to have been a bronze whaler or copper shark, attacked her boat. She spotted the
shark swimming past and quickly clambered aboard the canoe of a companion. Later
she found deep tooth marks on her upturned boat.

A few months earlier, a man swimming across the Parramatta River, which feeds
into Sydney Harbour, suffered lacerations across his chest. He initially thought
he had swum into barbed wire, but on reaching the shore found his chest covered
with gashes and bite marks.

The government of New South Wales has been cleaning up the city鈥檚 harbour for
ten years, by reducing the flow of waste into tributary rivers, especially the
Parramatta. Fish have returned as a result, according to the state鈥檚 Environment
Protection Authority. 鈥淪harks are coming back to the harbour, and that shows
that the source of food is there for them to be cruising around,鈥� says Brian
Manning of the state鈥檚 fisheries authority.

Tracey Holmes, a spokeswoman for the organisers of Sydney鈥檚 2000 Olympics,
says the attacks have not made them reconsider their plans. Shark attacks are
rare, mostly taking place after heavy rain and well west of the intended venue.
The last fatal shark attack in Sydney Harbour was in the 1950s.