The stadium at Sydney Olympic Park got a Cathy Freeman Stand in honour of the Indigenous athlete, whose gold medal race there stopped the nation.
Dean Lewins
The eastern grandstand at Accor Stadium in Sydney Olympic Park will be named the Cathy Freeman Stand. Turning and looking at her grandstand, the Kuku Yalanji and Birri Gubba woman was almost lost for words seeing her family name displayed to the world."This is about my family, the community I belong to, and of course the ancestral lines that go back so long and so deep and rich."
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