Cathy Freeman 400m Sydney Olympics with Bruce McAvaney commentating.

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8 жыл бұрын

Footage courtesy of Channel 7.

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@chooseyourpoison5105 6 жыл бұрын

I can remember watching this on tv at the time along with everyone else in Australia. When Cathy won you could hear the cheering and screaming from all the neighbours, all down the street and across the entire town ☺

@arconeagain 4 жыл бұрын

Pity a lot of them are likely to be abo hating bogans.

@The_Last_Ninja 2 жыл бұрын

@@arconeagain What’s that got to do with Cathy Freeman’s greatness?

@arconeagain 2 жыл бұрын

@@The_Last_Ninja what's the point of your question? It's redundant.

@Jack-qv8qc 2 жыл бұрын

@@The_Last_Ninja Don't talk to losers like Jeremy. They are only here to drag people down because they are failures in life.

@nineteen96 2 жыл бұрын

@@arconeagain what's the point of ur statement

@stevenwebb3634 Жыл бұрын

After twenty two years this still brings tears to my eyes

@seanp7dc 8 ай бұрын

Same, mate. Same!

@hl-nalibertad1470 6 ай бұрын

Me too

@siphiwongqeza3399 2 ай бұрын

A South African here and that's exactly how I feel, I'll never forget this day

@sacpac8480 2 ай бұрын

I find it extremely emotional, what a race from Freeman. Had the entire country on her shoulders

@mindbully 28 күн бұрын

I’ve never seen this race. Why was it so triumphant?

@davidbentley4731 10 ай бұрын

I was there. Most incredible thing I have ever experienced. 100,000 people screaming in unison. Just absolutely wonderful.

@mikel3030 8 жыл бұрын

One of the best moments of all time, performed perfectly under so much pressure - I get emotional watching this. Great call by Bruce as well.

@sunstarsmoon5618 7 жыл бұрын

Michael Lacey every time

@nugsruleify 4 жыл бұрын

Couldn't of said it anu better mate.😀😀

@livinindubai 2 жыл бұрын

What was the pressure she was in? Also she didn't seem "happy"? This video was recommended to me!

@mikel3030 2 жыл бұрын

@@livinindubai Australia has won very few individual athletics medals for decades, plus she is aboriginal and the outright favourite on home soil, the entire country was watching and she just had to deliver. Her look after the run was sheer relief that she had done it.

@livinindubai 2 жыл бұрын

@@mikel3030 Oh okay thanks!

@eddiehaddad1409 2 жыл бұрын

The sheer relief on her face - I'm kind of sad for her that she couldn't celebrate immediately after crossing the line but so much pressure was placed on her to win. She would have died trying. You go girl. Like others, I can remember hearing people in the street screaming while the race was on and then an explosion of emotion when she crossed the line. We went outside and swarms of people spilled into the street. I'll never forget it.

@bawar112 2 жыл бұрын

Where was this? Redfern? Jeez

@saccerzd 2 жыл бұрын

Why couldn't she celebrate immediately? Was it just that she was so overcome with relief/emotion/exhaustion, or something else? Thanks

@siddharthbirdi 2 жыл бұрын

@@saccerzd Exhaustion I would think, pushing your body and mind that hard and in the case of the mind for that long has consequences.

@jmcgovern9633 Ай бұрын

An entire island nation was behind her. Anything other than first place wasn’t happening on that night.

@mik9007 2 жыл бұрын

I am from Germany. I have to cry watching and hearing this. It makes me cry. Legendary, of course.

@chopzmasta07 7 жыл бұрын

Hands down this is inside the top ten of Australia's greatest sporting moments. Hell, it is one of Australia's greatest moments in its history.

@emilyparry2755 3 жыл бұрын

@Joe Bloggs you are wrong it’s 100% her talents go watch her run at Stawell

@dancingdani25 2 жыл бұрын

@Joe Bloggs it's right there in the video... She ran the fastest. You can't deny that. Her ethnicity didn't somehow make her run faster. That was her talent, hard work, and determination.

@dancingdani25 2 жыл бұрын

@Joe Bloggs there wouldn't be quite as much celebration for a white girl because no one told that white girl she couldn't do it because of her skin colour and background. It was a bigger deal when Cathy won because she proved that aboriginal people are just as capable as any other Australian, which is something many people didn't believe. Her people were oppressed with no rights and she gave them the spotlight in a wonderful way. Of course that's going to be hugely celebrated! It's important for equality.

@dancingdani25 2 жыл бұрын

@Joe Bloggs it's not even about the running. People have disrespected and oppressed aboriginal people forever and this was an opportunity to shine a light on them and let people realise that they deserve to be treated with the same respect that other Australians are.

@dancingdani25 2 жыл бұрын

@Joe Bloggs I'm not... It's just a fact that people have treated them like crap and Cathy was a symbol of hope for them.

@hbkgunner 6 жыл бұрын

I was 7 years old watching this and thought why she wasnt happy about winning, now all these years later you realize how much pressure she was under

@DaveWhoa 3 жыл бұрын

the weight of a nation

@jojo-xo4no 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah same here and she would've ran faster but all emotions from Australia was so high that she couldn't even focus bless her x

@normadesmond6017 3 жыл бұрын

@@DaveWhoa for sure.

@dahigiman4199 2 жыл бұрын

Nah she's always been the same and still is.. never a smile never happy just her.

@Tethysmeer 2 жыл бұрын

But also these distances feel absolutely terrible afterwards. Acidflash.

@alexbronynerfman 2 ай бұрын

"This is a famous victory of magnificent performance. What a legend, what a champion." - Bruce McAveny

@craigmckenzie8981 3 жыл бұрын

59 athletes whittled down to 8 across 2 rounds with 11 heats, 2 semi finals and this final. Out of this race, Graham, Merry and Fraser ran PBs. Merry first time under 50 secs. Seyerling from South Africa ran a national record. Freeman ran her quickest 400 for the year. An unbelievable race!

@newdiggszweiundsiebzig 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for that info... didn’t know those facts. I believe no woman has run faster in the final of the Olympic 400m since this race??

@Johhny_B 10 ай бұрын

@@newdiggszweiundsiebzigFreeman's 400m was one of the slowest winning times in modern olympic history.

@newdiggszweiundsiebzig 10 ай бұрын

@@Johhny_B I guess you’re trolling, but for the benefit of others who may be genuinely interested, Freeman’s time of 49.11 in Sydney would have won the Gold in Athens, Beijing, London and Rio as well, plus the Silver in Tokyo. I wrote my original comment before the Olympic Final in Tokyo… where Miller-Uibo of the Bahamas ran 48.36 which is 2nd only to Perec’s 48.25 OR from Atlanta. Since 96 , Freeman has the 3rd and 5th fastest times set in an Olympic final. I haven’t gone back beyond that because questions start to arise regarding times set whilst doping. The 96 Atlanta final had 4 of the top 10 times set in an Olympic final in this time span… the top 7 all ran sub-50 seconds. So I guess that settles the issue you raised?

@Johhny_B 10 ай бұрын

@@newdiggszweiundsiebzig wrong. Freeman's time at the 2000 Olympics is not even in the top 60 times for women's 400m. That's how slow it was.

@newdiggszweiundsiebzig 10 ай бұрын

@@Johhny_B haha - good try mate! 🤣 Perhaps start looking at the women’s list, not the men’s?? #voteyes

@seanp7dc 8 ай бұрын

Definite tears watching this. Extremely proud of Cathy - so much pressure, and she delivered. Hats off to Bruce McAvaney for his stellar commentary - the "Freeman's got work to do!" and "This is a famous victory..." are LEGENDARY!

@shux422 3 жыл бұрын

Not sure any individual Australian sportsperson has ever been under any more pressure than this. No wonder it took Cathy some time to collect her thoughts when it was over. A magnificent performance.

@troystaunton254 10 ай бұрын

I don’t think there has been. Certainly I remember Phil Gould took Andrew Johns and Brad Fittler to this event and according to him these 2 men who’d won origin series, world cups premierships and starred in all of it, were shaking they were so nervous for her. Cathy is a damn legend I remember doing a school project on her in 1997 little did I know she’d get better.

@waynehensgen7414 3 жыл бұрын

Will never forget this moment. She was carrying the weight of a nation. I cried as she hit the front in the straight. I was so happy she triumphed in such a pressure cooker moment.

@vadersgoldfish 2 жыл бұрын

This event happened 21 years ago. This video was uploaded 5 years ago. And yet watching it today still brought a tear to my eye. Wonderful moment.

@29pou 3 жыл бұрын

As a newly arrive immigrant- i googled this after watching her documentary on ABC... This race gave me goosebumps, so proud of you Cathy!

@millertas 3 жыл бұрын

1:10 you would have seen her look at her time was 'disappointing'. Saw the doco myself and after the flack she copped over carrying the Aboriginal Flag at the Commonwealth Games she certainly didn't after this race.

@silentblackhole 3 жыл бұрын

Welcome!!

@nidhinmohanvazhetta 2 жыл бұрын

Me too. 👍🏽

@29pou 2 жыл бұрын

@@silentblackhole Thank you Tim, so kind of you.

@Oscarspoem Жыл бұрын

Never in the history of any sport has so much pressure been put on one person. Living in London, I watched this and was going crazy. Really amazing moment.

@ritaa1359 10 ай бұрын

Watch ur sport support ur country not someone else’s

@Oscarspoem 10 ай бұрын

@@ritaa1359 Get some friends for yourself.

@James-fw5ew 4 ай бұрын

A. That's dumb B. You don't think there are Aussies living in London?

@Oscarspoem 4 ай бұрын

I am not Australian. Just a human being who tuned in, as I fully understood the enormous pressure Freeman must have felt. That's it, really. Thanks.

@StuTheDon17 21 күн бұрын

I'd say the pressure Argentina put on Messi was 5 times than we had on Cathy. But other than that, I can't think of too many more

@peterkehoe3649 8 жыл бұрын

For all the stick Bruce McAvaney cops for his footy commentary, he's forever a legend in my eyes for the call of Cathy's win.

@Holden308 5 жыл бұрын

Bruce is an absolute legend. I grew up in Adelaide when he was Ch.7's lead commentator in the SANFL in the early 1980s before he moved to Melbourne. Australia's best ever sports commentator bar none. And we have had some class commentators including Rex Mossop, Ray Warren and Frank Hyde (rugby league), Gordon Bray (rugby union), Johnny Tapp (horse racing), Mike Raymond, Garry Wilkinson and Neil Crompton (motor racing), the late Darrell Eastlake, he of the HUUUUGE voice, who did both rugby league and motor racing and of course the late great Richie Benaud in cricket. But Bruce McAvaney tops them all IMO.

@tommym123 3 жыл бұрын

No shit

@frabro4291 3 жыл бұрын

@@Holden308 ill take dennis commetti anyday. Love bruce. Prefer dennis

@yoavcohen2218 3 жыл бұрын

Bruce was a great footy caller untill Dennis retired

@ThunderJuice 3 жыл бұрын

I know of Bruce from watching Aussie athletics broadcasts on here and he is in my top 3 in that regard, maybe #1.

@Its_just_me_again 2 жыл бұрын

best euphoric crowd experience i have ever participated in - it felt like the stadium was going to come down. i felt just as much relief for her as i did admiration

@NorfBoy24 8 жыл бұрын

Australia won't ever have a bigger sporting moment than this. Olympics on home soil, Cathy the face of the games and her people with the reconciliation movement that was so prevalent at that time. The entire circus build up to the race with Perec leaving, her coming out in the spacesuit, 116 thousand people in the place. If McAvaney calling with 60m to go 'cathy lifting, goes up to Graham, takes the lead, looks a winner' doesn't still give you goosebumps you aren't human.

@HeathWP 7 жыл бұрын

Never say never. Winning the Football World Cup would easily surpass this. In fact you could argue the WCQ against Uruguay was more pivotal.

@GodsView1 7 жыл бұрын

Nathaniel Martin brilliant summation. The whole buildup and atmosphere was incredible!

@willmceniry 6 жыл бұрын

I still remember being 10 years old sitting at Circular Quay watching this and the entire crowd going absolutely ballistic. Definitely one of the most iconic sporting events, if not the most iconic sporting event, in Australian history.

@markporter9738 6 жыл бұрын

I'm not human but I still had goosebumps.

@nameian777 6 жыл бұрын

The 83 Americas Cup with Australia 2 winning was just like this race but it was about a 6 month build up.

@solfamilyj 11 ай бұрын

I remember watching this, with tears streaming down my face. I just wanted her to win so bad. I'm a London born Nigerian, and I still wanted Cathy Freeman to show the world, Aboriginals winning on their own land. Cathy is one of my Shero's.❤

@nathansmart1532 10 ай бұрын

Well Said my Man,Being An Aboriginal boy I am SO Proud of Cathy She even said in her 💓 She was Representing Everyone as we are all One Blood,What a Bloody LEGEND 🏅🥇🏅🇧🇪🇦🇺

@ademersoy3674 2 жыл бұрын

It’s been how many years and I’m still getting goosebumps watching it. Champions don’t come easy. You truely are a great champion Cathy.

@Skybar23 2 жыл бұрын

the look she gives at the end when shes on the ground-thats the look when I find out my mother in law wont be able to visit because of covid...the sheer relief

@speedoflightvanc 2 жыл бұрын

lol

@niozella1041 2 жыл бұрын

I remember this like it was yesterday. I was living in Brisbane at the time. It brought a lot of people together, & very uplifting for the indigenous community.

@JSS822 4 ай бұрын

I was watching this at a down time in my life when I was unemployed, coming off a bad separation and going through some depression. The next morning I got a call with an offer for a job. I always remember this race.

@JBrizbn 2 жыл бұрын

I still love watching this. Cathy was such a humble champion and had so much pressure on her going in to this! She’s all heart and Bruce did an awesome call! One of my all time favourite moments in sport

@robertkennedy4456 4 жыл бұрын

I still tear up watching this 20 years later

@MrBargill 3 жыл бұрын

Me 2…

@justjack4030 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah same mate

@boonslang6689 2 жыл бұрын

Why? Anything special in this? I am a foreign noob.

@sunilapatel607 8 жыл бұрын

Looking at this race sixteen years later still makes me cry - u were awesome Cathy - u r a legend

@mothertree 7 жыл бұрын

everyone is proud of you,Cathy! we still chant your name all this time later...congratulations you are a true champion!

@petrolhead0387 2 жыл бұрын

@John Masden why don't you comment with your real account, you are either a troll or a chicken.

@petrolhead0387 2 жыл бұрын

@John Masden 🐔🐔🐔

@petrolhead0387 2 жыл бұрын

@John Masden 🐔🐔🐔

@petrolhead0387 2 жыл бұрын

@John Masden 🐔🐔🐔

@StuTheDon17 2 жыл бұрын

Bruce nailed this call. Cathy's effort and reaction after winning, coupled with Bruce's call can bring a tear to the eye. It's perfection in every sense

@JackKinross 11 ай бұрын

I was opposite the finishing line, I'll never forget it, by far the greatest sporting moment I've ever seen and I'm not even Australian. The crowd was incredible and Cathy lived up to everything. Brilliant.

@FunnyCatVidzz 6 жыл бұрын

Biggest and Best sporting moment in Australian history.

@one2teen 3 жыл бұрын

The second biggest is the first night of swimming at the 2000 Olympics. Ian Thorpe winning individual and relay gold.

@peterkehoe1984 3 жыл бұрын

No doubt about that.

@KleosAu 3 жыл бұрын

100%

@georgerogen3884 3 жыл бұрын

Hewitt wining wimbledon?

@Charleybones 3 жыл бұрын

Not Goolagong winning Wimbledon in 1971?

@tanyavincent1990 8 жыл бұрын

she made Australia proud and her culture l am proud to be her culture

@mothertree 7 жыл бұрын

that`s very nice Tanya...keep it up

@jasonmaguire7552 2 жыл бұрын

Proud because of a running race? That's not your culture

@lizziebkennedy7505 2 жыл бұрын

@@jasonmaguire7552 Whereas yours is cutting people down? Get help.

@Dhksksjjsjjs 2 жыл бұрын

@@jasonmaguire7552 we all know your ancestor's culture ! Go bark somewhere else Even Europe don't want you people , that is why youre ancestors were sent to aus

@-humsafar 2 жыл бұрын

@@Dhksksjjsjjs wtf

@brewcology 10 ай бұрын

What a legend indeed. I was cheering from NZ😊❤

@terencemccarthy8615 3 жыл бұрын

Ok ..who’s here after watching the Freeman doco on the ABC tonight !

@GodsView1 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome atmosphere. I was at the 150m mark. The crowd was wild and electric, a massive and very long build-up to the Sydney Olympics for Cathy and Australia, and the expectation was out of this world. Top 5 best moments in Australian sport.

@user-pl9po1wi8s 2 жыл бұрын

I was there my first year in Australia 🇦🇺 21 years ago time flies.

@PAULTAVAI 2 жыл бұрын

This race Gives me goosebumps. I remember watching this the whole of Fiji was going for Cathy. She own that moment. What a legend 🏃‍♀️🔥❤️ 💛🖤 🇦🇺

@michellagnelli6671 2 жыл бұрын

Yes I remember this race also ...you could hear the screams from our whole street cheering her on ...And we are all Kiwis .... She was the darling of those games for sure ?... stay safe take care

@michellagnelli6671 2 жыл бұрын

Ummmm ..I think we mean a running race as in Racing at the Olympics !, AS IN A SPORT. ......WHEN commentators say ,And it's a Race to the Finish .OK they don't mean Finland ...Just thought I'd help u out ..No racism here .

@PAULTAVAI 2 жыл бұрын

@John Masden we here for the love of sports.

@michellagnelli6671 2 жыл бұрын

@@PAULTAVAI good on u Paul I think we been taken completely out of context by John Masden, ,,take care

@michellagnelli6671 2 жыл бұрын

@John Masden .. No we haven't John Masden ....Do u not have friends that you can discuss your issues with ..Or medical professionals? OR Is it just because you just like being NASTY. ...

@oceanman3996 2 жыл бұрын

Everyone is asking about her suit. Well she was suppose to be racing in the F1 but they asked her at the last minute if she could run the 400m instead. Love your work Cathy 🥰

@trod9850 3 жыл бұрын

What a legend what a champion what a great ambassador for indigenous Australians all Australians 👍❤️

@tattmoon1 2 жыл бұрын

One of the greatest under pressure performances of all time

@fasmas2293 2 жыл бұрын

I always like that moment when the contestants some times the last in the race comes to greet and share that moment with the winner, what a sportsmanship

@avagud1 2 жыл бұрын

I miss watching Cathy perform! She was a great athlete and a top notch person too. Thank you Cathy for being a legend and inspiration for Australia!

@ashrickard721 2 жыл бұрын

One of the best if not the best sporting moment for Australia 🇦🇺 👌🏼

@elaustraliano 3 жыл бұрын

I've watched so many videos of this race and I love them all! Cathy's victory was a truly historic moment.

@biancat7761 2 жыл бұрын

I can't watch this without tearing up. Cathy. You are my hero from a little girl, to now. You bloody legend!

@Beaut_Beau 2 жыл бұрын

That is some true humility on display there, no fist pumping and over the top celebrating, just powerful emotional relief from the result of her hard work, incredible to watch, makes me tear up even now.

@degreaser1263 2 жыл бұрын

One of if not the best sporting moments in Australia's history. Still gives me goose bumps and brings tears to my eyes...so much pressure, and handled it with pure class 👏 👌 🙌

@mikewazowski8368 Жыл бұрын

Man we're so lucky to have Bruce as a commentator, I don't understand how people can dislike him.

@grantheskey5704 2 жыл бұрын

I'll never forget that run, it was a real where were U moment, she is a national treasure

@bvoz17 8 ай бұрын

This was such an iconic moment, what a victory... Legend!

@em945 2 жыл бұрын

I rewatch this on occassion to experience olympic level goosebumps and tears of sheer inspirational joy. Magic. (Am australian)

@JasonBlack66 2 жыл бұрын

That's our Girl and OMG listen to that crowd, that was nuts. louder than a footy grand final at the MCG!

@Katw76 3 жыл бұрын

I will never forget sitting in front of the TV while I was working in the UK to watch this race, such an epic moment.

@Gamx50 2 жыл бұрын

I'll never forget this night. One of the best calls by Bruce and he put it all together when it counted most. The gold medal race at the Olympics.

@Bandito071 8 жыл бұрын

Still gives me goosebumps

@chirmchirm 8 жыл бұрын

Bruce is the greatest sports caller of all time

@GoCrows1 6 жыл бұрын

Kris Mannix Couldn't agree more

@Salesiable 5 жыл бұрын

Kris Mannix Absolutely

@philipdavis2755 2 жыл бұрын

Won't be calling the boxing anytime soon, sport's commentator that doesn't rate boxing.

@elmerfudd6305 2 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't say the greatest of all time, could be in the top 20 in Australia, but his voice and over the top excitement and whining kill it for me,,.

@simonr5269 Жыл бұрын

I was working in the one of the bars at the stadium during that race.. it was the loudest crowd I've ever heard anywhere ever ...still remember it as clear as day

@nat8907 7 жыл бұрын

I get goose bumps every time I watch this

@steve8t2 5 жыл бұрын

"What a relief" - Raelene Boyle

@Skate10Scott 2 жыл бұрын

Iconic! I was only 7 during the 2000 Olympics but i remember it so clearly. My older sister got to go and i went to the Paralympics instead. Was a school thing.

@sonnybill8271 10 ай бұрын

New Zealand fell in love with her, Australia have no idea how much NZ was cheering for her all the way ❤

@shanedallachy5450 Ай бұрын

❤❤

@deanwishart9981 6 ай бұрын

Understandably couldn’t get a ticket (attended for her semi), so went to Darling Harbour. Big screens in the open, thousands & thousands of people. From the moment the gun went the entire crowd yelled and screamed as if that was powering Cathy. The exhortations, screaming and yelling went for the 40 seconds of the race, then an eruption of simultaneous joy from many thousands when she won. One of the great sporting moments in my life, even if not at the actual stadium.

@jackx7382 2 жыл бұрын

I will never tire of watching this! What a legend!

@bellslinki 5 жыл бұрын

4.30am i awoke this morning and had the Urge to watch Cathy Freeman ❤

@Simon-nv5zj 9 ай бұрын

I dont think ANY Australian sportsperson has been under more pressure than what Cathy was under. Her biggest rival (and the no1 in the world I think?) was out, and the whole world was watching her. One of the greatest achievements in Australian sporting history

@mulgravedave 7 жыл бұрын

this has inspired me for my half marathon tomorrow in melbourne:)ty cathy ill think of you and that run, if i feel tired:)

@beaugeste8066 2 жыл бұрын

How did you go mate? 👍

@Lyricistnz 2 жыл бұрын

Still gets me all these years later

@cowboys2626 2 жыл бұрын

Still get goosebumps everytime I watch this. One of the great Australian sporting moments.

@waynemargan2732 2 жыл бұрын

WOW.. I watched it live and it was WOW…and it still is…WOW..

@hesh2892 2 жыл бұрын

Great run for Aboriginal Australia by Cathy !! Patty Mills also did Aborigines proud taking Australia to bronze in basketball at Tokyo 2021

@michaelscurr9046 2 жыл бұрын

The best day of my life seeing catthy freeman win that race under such pressure.

@stevemurrell6167 2 жыл бұрын

Tear up when I watch this.....one of my all time great Olympic moments. Kathy.....you're a legend.

@antonywagg8753 2 жыл бұрын

Definitely one of the best moments in Australia sport. At that time i was in Sydney at circular key watching Cathy run on the big screen memories right there.

@darrenhenry7407 5 жыл бұрын

Still gives you goosebumps watching this

@brendancook7611 3 ай бұрын

Cathy was perfect. I will never forget… Bruce was amazing …. Their best commentary to a perfect race. Aussie heroes both but Cathy rocks. Am proud to an Australian…. Cathy please run for PM

@geletmote 11 ай бұрын

Cathy Freeman, Bruce McAvaney - Goosebumps

@tnytyson Жыл бұрын

Whenever I feel low. I watch this amazing lady and think you can to win a gold medal, pull my Sox up and go for it. Thank you Miss Freeman. T💝

@nzfreeski 2 жыл бұрын

I was at that race and was screaming my lungs crazy for Cathy! So emotional. And I’m a kiwi!!!!

@thedownunderverse 3 жыл бұрын

Coming up to 20 years ago! Still gives me goosebumps. F’k yes!!

@michaelougarezos8963 2 жыл бұрын

i remember crying with joy and now i have seen this clip again a teared again.

@garyjohnstone6422 10 ай бұрын

Our Cathy is a magnificent athlete and a great person. So much pressure. An easy win as she glided effortlessly past the also rans. Our best moment in sport in my opinion. What an example she is for everyone and, especially, her fellow aborigines. Cathy is much loved and admired. Humility abundant from this world champion. She said she felt inferior as a kid. As she showed it is what is inside that matters. Everybody looks up to Cathy and adores her manner. There`s something about Cathy Freeman.

@silvernoob1603 10 ай бұрын

we didn't know how good we had it back in the late 90's and early 00's

@rodneyrapasigapirongo8566 8 жыл бұрын

A race that cannot be erased from my memory...

@MichaelJames-rt2vd 3 жыл бұрын

Still gives me goosebumps and tears in my eyes every time I watch it. The roar of the crowd is unbelievable and Bruce's commentary was one for the ages. You should have to watch this when being naturalized as an Australian!

@makzyg 7 жыл бұрын

I cried like a baby watching this......its phenomenal!!!!!

@heathermac4024 2 жыл бұрын

Man another beutyful win from Cath and a great call out to Bruce two magnificent Aussies wow what a combo makes you proud to be a Aussie ❤️🇦🇺

@QuadrantRoyale 8 күн бұрын

24 years on I know who won the race but I am still screaming "Cmon Cathy!!!!"

@adorward68 4 ай бұрын

Still brings tears to the eyes. What a run, what a race call

@AKsevenFOUR 2 жыл бұрын

The pressure must have been immense. What a true champion.

@wheelson7895 7 ай бұрын

Goosebumps every time! The whole country loves Cathy so much ❤

@WorldSacred 7 жыл бұрын

Perhaps my television was turned up louder than my computer. However, I remember the crowd just about blew the roof off the stadium in that final 50 metres.

@FootlightMedia 7 жыл бұрын

If you listen to this in Full HD with good headphones (FF 4 mins on: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gaiaqMuixMW8gJ8.html) it DOES sound like the roof was about to blow.

@carolynkidd4440 2 жыл бұрын

I’ll never forget Cathy running down the straight towards me. I was with my mum in the stands behind the finish line. I was screaming, crying, delirious with joy. What a race to be at. Will never forget that feeling!

@Lizalotte Жыл бұрын

Still the greatest Olympic moment ever.

@Lyricistnz 2 жыл бұрын

One of the greatest memories of my life

@trinkabuszczuk6138 Жыл бұрын

I'm watching this as my wife met Cathy today at a Women's World Cup Soccer function in Perth, Australia. We're English but now live here. I said to her, "Who would've thought, all those years ago, watching this on TV from ten thousand miles away that you'd one day meet her?" Bloody brilliant! Cathy walks with a crutch now as she has a very bad knee 😪 Cathy had a lot of pressure on her here, carrying the hopes of the entire nation: she knocked it out of the park! 🥰

@btchplz5352 10 ай бұрын

Im a born and raised Sydney sider, I went to this race when I was a kid, I’ve never felt something so atmospheric in my life. Having an Australian/ aboriginal women win at the Olympic, on her own turf is amazing and was an amazing moment in our history.. I actually can’t believe this was 20 years ago . Also to have her light the torch on the opening ceremony was even better. Before this, I remember being in school, and the Olympic torch went around the country, and we got to meet her in school and hold the Olympic torch with her