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The magic of the Sydney Olympics through the eyes of a child – Sydney Morning Herald
Born as Sydney was announced as the Olympic host, Tom Decent channels his inner seven-year-old to recall a magical 16 days in September 2000.
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Dad could very well have lost his driver’s licence because of my hero, Ian Thorpe. Sitting in the back seat of a little blue Holden Barina, I used to hassle my old man to pretend our car was Thorpey. He knew exactly what I meant.
On the highway, wed spot a vehicle ahead of us which, immediately in my seven-year-old mind, became Gary Hall jnr, the American freestyle champion.
A few days earlier we had watched Thorpe, the 17-year-old whiz kid…
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