In our country, Cathy Freeman is synonymous with the Olympic Games, what she's done not just for sport, for our country and athletics but for her culture and the indigenous community is really ...

Now, she has re-lived everything surrounding the Sydney 2000 Games – her background, lighting the Olympic flame at the Opening Ceremony, and winning Olympic gold – in a new documentary about her life, ...

In 1996, Freeman took silver in the 400 metres at the Atlanta Olympics, then in Sydney in 2000 she won gold. Watched by 110,000 spectators and a truly global TV audience, she repeated her ceremony, ...

News The best Olympic Opening Ceremonies of all time, ranked Now that Paris 2024 has come to an end, here’s a look back at previous opening ceremonies which have gone down in Olympic history ...

The 1896 Olympic Games featured a massive choir and orchestral performance at its opening ceremony. (Image: The Olympic Games) On April 6, 1896, the first modern Olympic Games opened in the ...

The Olympics got off to a flying start with the star-studded opening ceremony airing at 3.30am AEST, with Celine Dion and ...

Katharine Merry (l) won bronze in Sydney 2000 as Cathy Freeman took gold and Lorraine Graham of Jamaica won a silver medal in the women's 400m final Olympic bronze medallist Katharine Merry says ...

“It was the biggest race, there was 112,000 people in the stadium - 111,000 supporting Cathy Freeman. “It’s still one of the most-watched television events ever, and in Australia of course.

Cathy Freeman, an aboriginal Australian athlete, lights the Olympic torch during the opening ceremony for the 2000 Olympic Games. Photo by Dimitri Iundt/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images ...

Olympics organisers look to set the mark early with iconic opening ceremonies. We take a look at the memorable ones. read more Cathy Freeman smiles as she displays the Olympic torch before lighting ...

French president Emmannuel Macron fuelled speculation that Marie-Jose Perec could make an Olympic comeback 24 years after she caused an international storm by fleeing the Sydney Games.

A troubling reality for idealistic myths about Olympic history is that the first opening ceremony on a scale like today’s was the 1936 Berlin Games – “Hitler’s Olympics”. Berlin’s opening ceremony ...