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With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.
Cathy Freeman
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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
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The last sort of really low-key race I ran, I realized with about a hundred metres to go, that my heart just wasn't in it. I wasn't trying my hardest, I didn't care to compete against the girls I was up against. That spoke a lot about where my heart was taking me-which was off the track.
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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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My last real race was at the Olympics in Sydney in 2000.
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I made my first Australian senior team when I was 16, first Olympics when I was 19, and I retired. I'm 32, I retired four years ago, so a good third of my life or nearly a third of my life has been all about running.
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Money makes life easier but I don't want to be rich, not at all.
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My feelings tried to control me on my run. I had to concentrate fully on forthcoming running and success. I wanted to triumph.
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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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I'm not a marriage expert, quite clearly.
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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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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 quite clearly have made the right decision in my heart, retirement was the way.
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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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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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People could see in me who I am now, an Olympic champ, the best in the world.
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When I'm in a bad mood, I don't listen.
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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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Australians are a fantastic bunch of people but the attention can be overwhelming for someone like me.
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Twenty seconds before a race, there's absolute focus. The key thing is to achieve relaxation, but at the same to have absolute total control. You've got to find the balance between being totally ready to go and being really at peace with yourself as well.
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I took only twice a time-out, once, when I was hurt, and a second time, when I much felt I was exhausted out of personal reasons.
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