Aussie sporting legend Cathy Freeman has revealed she feels a tinge of remorse over her iconic gold medal on the 2000 Sydney Olympic Video games.
The Indigenous nice took the big weight of a nation’s strain on her shoulders into the Video games and, clad within the inexperienced and gold bodysuit, received gold within the ladies’s 400 metres.
However Freeman’s 49.11 seconds was in need of her private finest, a 48.63 ran when profitable silver on the Atlanta Video games in 1996, and he or she is upset trying again on the iconic Sydney run due to it.
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Freeman was eager to race French rival Marie-Jose Perec, the winner of the 2 earlier gold medals, however Perec fled Australia earlier than the race after intense media consideration and an alleged confrontation with a person at her resort.
“I’d turn out to be used to expectation being placed on me,” Freeman mentioned on Friday at a Melbourne United NBL enterprise luncheon.
“I virtually wanted it, as a result of it type of helps drive you and push you past what you assume you’re able to doing.
“Having mentioned that, I don’t even assume I actually fulfilled my potential as an athlete, however that’s one other story … studying to unburden your self is basically vital, and discovering freedom in life is essential.”
She added: “I didn’t run as quick as I might have.
“I upset myself. That’s why I used to be so upset that Marie-Jose Perec wasn’t within the race as a result of in her peak … we’d have taken ladies’s 400m operating to a subsequent stage.
“I keep in mind being on the warm-up observe and listening to that she wasn’t going to be in Sydney, and never initially line. I keep in mind for a break up second my coronary heart dropped as a result of rivals love competing.
“When she wasn’t there, it was a little bit of a blow, however what are you going to do? I’m not going to chase her. I simply needed to transfer on actually shortly.”
Initially printed as ‘Didn’t run as quick as I might have’: Cathy Freeman’s Sydney 2000 Olympics bombshell
