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...Then there was the thrilling, surprising choice of Cathy Freeman to light the flame. A champion, an Aboriginal, a standing Olympian, skinny little Cathy Freeman accepted the torch from a relay of six past Australian female medals-winners on the centennial of women competing in the Games. A lot of different circles were rounded off that night. Freeman stepped lightly into the water, and built a wall of flame around her. As the cauldron rose, the stadium was reverently quiet. Then Freeman walked out of the waterfall, and the crowd gave her this fervent, earnest, "Good on yer, Cathy...
...already declaring victory over the Games of Atlanta. Australia's opening ceremony not only had ceremony but also offered substance in twin dramas of national and international reconciliation. When Aboriginal Cathy Freeman, a favorite in the 400-m run, crossed a pond of water to light the Olympic flame, she symbolically bridged a racial divide that has tainted and tormented Australia. And during the parade of athletes, the teams of South and North Korea entered as one, two bitter enemies reuniting for sport. Stop the presses: Peace breaks out at the Olympics...
...fiercely as the flame burns the hope of a Games "without doping and without drugs," as Hockeyroos star Rechelle Hawkes said in the Olympic oath. And in choosing Cathy Freeman as the flame's final custodian, Games officials rekindled another hope. It was there in Freeman's eyes as the cauldron rose - a dedication not only to individual victory but to a collective one as well: to unity between black and white Australians. For a moment last Friday evening, anything seemed possible...
...Police shoved a torchbearer whose flame had already been extinguished when he pretended to light an 11-year-old's birthday cake, causing the girl to burst into tears...
...tried--and failed--to douse the flame with a fire extinguisher...