In a message dated 7/16/2003 11:07:31 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>woods47 said:..Cathy had to be under tremendous pressure to light the Olympic >torch to open the games...DID you mean pleasure, what pressure???????? > Pressure is the appropriate word...this may not have come across in the broadcast of the torch lighting, but the device that was to transport Freeman up the ramp got stuck and she had to stand there smiling as workers frantically tried to get the thing moving again. As for Freeman being the "greatest" Australian athlete, aren't we dealing with semantics here? Maybe "most memorable" or "most inspirational" would be a better phrase to describe Freeman's place in Australian history? In my many years of attending Olympics and World Championships, nothing quite matches that magical moment in Sydney when Freeman won the 400. If you weren't there, you can't truly appreciate what it meant to Australians. Walt Murphy
