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People could see in me who I am now, an Olympic champ, the best in the world.

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Cathy Freeman
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: February 16
Athletics Competitor
Olympic Athlete
Sprinter
Slade Point
Queensland
Australia
Catherine Astrid Salome Freeman
Olympic
Track
Motivational
Best
World
People
Champ

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I'd like to see as many sports as I can because I have never had the chance to enjoy the other sports in the past.
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Peace, unity and harmony!
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My mind is pretty made up that life for Cathy Freeman will be as an unmarried woman from now on.
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With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.
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Australians are a fantastic bunch of people but the attention can be overwhelming for someone like me.
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I'm not a marriage expert, quite clearly.
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I don't have a lot of regrets in my life.
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For athletes traditionally it's such a fantastic stepping stone to greater things down the track and in the future. Don't undermine the Commonwealth Games!
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I decided that I was going to go to the Olympics to see if I had made the right decision to retire because I knew that if I'd made the mistake of retiring I would know during and after those Games in Athens.
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I do not have any official responsibilities related to the Australian Olympic Committee or the Federation of Athletic Associations since I am too busy with my private business.
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The thing I do best is laugh.
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The Athens Olympics will be meaningful even though I cannot participate as an athlete, since I can participate in the flame relay all over the world.
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I was running since I was 10. Since grade one at school people looked at me and thought, oh gosh she can really run, she's a natural.
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I'm certainly not ready to go changing the world overnight right now. I'm completely uninformed about a lot of our issues, a lot of the nation's issues, not just Indigenous issues.
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Money makes life easier but I don't want to be rich, not at all.
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I'm doing something now where I'm going to have to learn so much and that takes time nurturing, those kinds of relationships.
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You got to try and reach for the stars or try and achieve the unreachable.
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My last real race was at the Olympics in Sydney in 2000.
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I'm learning in my own sort of quiet, out-of-the-spotlight kind of way. I certainly have my general point of view about the government, and the future of our children. I'm certainly learning all the time, I'm happy to be an onlooker for now.
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I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.
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