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‘I’m black and I’m the best there is’: Freeman’s run shone a light on race – Sydney Morning Herald
Twenty years later, Cathy Freeman still sits at the end of the track in quiet bewilderment when reflecting on her Sydney Olympic gold medal triumph and what she went through to get there.
The film, screened on the ABC on Sunday night, elegantly recaptured that period and the idea of how Freeman’s achievement was about race. How her run elevated her race.
Since she emerged in Australia as a gifted teenager, sections of the country wrestled with how to deal with the precociously talented runner at a time when a light was being shone on Australia’s relationship with its first peoples.
I was a kid who was quite embarrassed to be a black kid, an Indigenous kid. I grew up with that s…
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