Indigenous athletes remember the highlights, the challenges and the lessons learned from the Sydney Olympic Games and, of ...

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA: Australian sporting icon Cathy Freeman lights the Olympic cauldron 15 September, 2000 in Sydney to ignite the 27th Olympiad of the modern era, and the first of the new millennium.

FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2000, file photo, Australia’s Cathy Freeman celebrates winning the women’s 400 meter race at the Summer Olympics at Olympic Stadium in Sydney. Freeman ignited the Olympic ...

15 Sep 2000: Cathy Freeman of Australia holds the Olympic Torch prior to lighting the Olympic Flame during the Opening Ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Homebush Bay, ...

Even with 112,000 people packed in, Stadium Australia was silent for just a moment on the evening of 25 September 2000. In Lane 6, sprinter Cathy Freeman – clad in her iconic green-and-gold full-body ...