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...Just as unforgettable was the grin that later lit up the face of Cathy Freeman as she became the last Olympian to be handed the torch after a tantalizing relay around the stadium, from Raelene Boyle and Betty Cuthbert, to Dawn Fraser, Shirley Strickland, Shane Gould and Debbie Flintoff-King. And then an eternity it really seemed, as the flaming cauldron wobbled above Freeman's head, stopped, then began its agonizingly slow crawl up the 70-meter waterfall. A small engineering problem had caused "some extraordinary adrenaline rushes" among the organizers, said master of ceremonies Ric Birch. But by evening...
...They weren't the only countries to be galvanized by the spirit of the Games. Passing through 11,000 hands during the torch relay's 100-day, 27,000-km journey, the Olympic flame has brought Australia into closer touch with itself. The relay "symbolizes everything that's good about the Games," former marathon champion Robert de Castella has said. "Somehow it's been able to capture the balance between the grass roots and the elite side of the Olympics." In a chain of simple gestures, the Olympic ideal was made tangible...
...swimming program, the expectations of millions found perfection in 10 laps of the Olympic pool. Thorpe won two gold medals, broke his own world record for the 400-meter freestyle and shared another world best with three teammates when he anchored Australia's 4 x 100 freestyle relay team to victory over the U.S. - a country that had never failed to win that event at an Olympics. For Thorpe, it had been the "best minute, best hour, best day, best week" of his life. "To be able to dream and to fulfill it is the best thing an individual...
...best at the Olympic Games," he said afterward. "It's one of the things I wanted to do." The other thing he wanted to do on Saturday was to help his teammates - Michael Klim, Chris Fydler and Ashley Callus - break the U.S. lock on the 4 x 100 freestyle relay...
...Thorpe at 400 meteer. In his specialty race, Thorpe lowered his world record and won by something just under a week (actually, by 2.81 seconds, with a time of 3:40.59). Round 2 was just as large a mismatch in the women's 4 x 100-m freestyle relay. Australia, after starting hot, cooled to sixth. The U.S. set a world record, and anchor Jenny Thompson, in superb form, won her sixth Olympic gold medal, moving ahead of speed skater Bonnie Blair for most golds ever by an American woman...