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How the Sydney 2000 Olympics opening ceremony came within a ‘hair’s breadth’ of disaster – ABC News
The world watched for an agonising four minutes as the Olympic cauldron became stuck on its way to the top of the stadium, but few knew just how close the “sacred flame” had come to being snuffed out.
The world was watching when Cathy Freeman lit the Olympic flame during the Sydney 2000 opening ceremony but the historic moment was close to being a humiliating failure.
“There is a hair’s breadth between triumph and tragedy,” Michael Knight said.
Twenty years after the ceremony, the former NSW Minister for the Olympics feels comfortable laughing about the moment that came so close to disaster.
Anyone who watched the event would remember the well-publicised wobbles the cauldron getting stuck …
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