The culprit behind the heartstopping four-minute delay to the rising Olympic cauldron during Sydney’s opening ceremony has been unmasked - excessive mobile phone traffic.
The athlete reflects on the 400m final that stopped a nation, how she carried the country on her shoulders and her legacy 25 ...
More than a week before her starring role on the track, Cathy Freeman was part of the other great story of the Sydney ...
At her core, Cathy Freeman is a shy Murri kid from regional Queensland but she honed her mind and body to achieve both Olympian and Australian icon status.
On September 25, 2000, the world turned its gaze to the Sydney Olympic Stadium, where an electrifying atmosphere enveloped 112,000 spectators eagerly anticipating a single race—the women’s 400m final ...
Twenty-five years have passed since the Sydney 2000 Olympics, an event that many consider the best Olympic Games ever. From breathtaking ceremonies to unforgettable athletic performances, the games ...
A day doesn’t go by without someone reminding the face of the Sydney Olympics of the biggest moment of her life. Cathy ...
Twenty-five years after the eyes of the world were fixed on her, Cathy Freeman stood in the same Sydney stadium on Monday, albeit in front of a much smaller crowd. A quarter of a century earlier on ...
A quarter of a century later, Catherine the Great is still burning as bright as ever on the top step of the podium.
Australian icon talks about embracing the pressure and unwittingly becoming the symbol for something far bigger than sport.
The first golden group of inductees were honoured at an event that threw back to the Sydney 2000 games with Nikki Webster ...
Even rugby league Immortal Andrew Johns was awe-struck when meeting the athlete whose grace under fire remains the defining ...