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Speaker 1: Jum Mission with Jones and Amanda. I know there's been

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Speaker 1: a lot of hype about the Kathy Freeman documentary, and

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Speaker 1: I'm not one of those people who's who goes on

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Speaker 1: and on about when Sydney had the Olympics blah blah blah.

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Speaker 1: But I love Kathy. So I watched it and I

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Speaker 1: just started crying from the beginning. It's amazing. And to

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Speaker 1: look at what to remember how we were there. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's twenty nineteen years ago. Now years ago, it's twenty

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Speaker 1: years ago, a year before September eleventh, and to be

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Speaker 1: reminded of that time was it was a great nostalgia hit.

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Speaker 2: It was.

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Speaker 1: It was a great bubble, that's exactly right. And to

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Speaker 1: look at everyone there roaring for Kathy in that race,

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Speaker 1: that we were all on the same side. It seems

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Speaker 1: that Australia is, you know, with social media and what's

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Speaker 1: going on with COVID at the moment, and state versus

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Speaker 1: state were so divided, but here we all were and

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Speaker 1: this young women at the center of it all. She

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Speaker 1: wouldn't say that she was up for it, she really was,

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Speaker 1: but imagine the pressure on her. All eyes were on

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Speaker 1: Kathy for these Olympics, she lit the torch. Imagine the

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Speaker 1: rehearsal that that took in the midst of her preparation

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Speaker 1: for that big race. Her manager and her mother were

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Speaker 1: sitting in the opening ceremony crowd. They knew she was

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Speaker 1: part of the procession at the beginning, but they were saying, Wow,

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Speaker 1: I wonder who's going to light the Olympic flame? And

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Speaker 1: I go, oh, wow, I think that's Kathy.

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Speaker 2: And Ben.

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Speaker 1: You remember she had the suit on inside out, the

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Speaker 1: little white suit, and then the stupid called her.

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Speaker 2: It got starkly.

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Speaker 1: We didn't know that. We all thought it was part

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Speaker 1: of the process.

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Speaker 2: I remember watching that.

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Speaker 1: I think in should take that on. My spidery sense

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Speaker 1: was saying something just something seemed to right, and I said,

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Speaker 1: they said to be milking this bit a bit. But

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Speaker 1: she kept her dignity. She was so dignified and it

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Speaker 1: was so iconic. But all the eyes were on Kathy,

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Speaker 1: all of Indigenous. She was representing Indigenous Australia. She was

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Speaker 1: resenting all Australia. She was about to put her place

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Speaker 1: in the history books, this incredible sense of destiny. But

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Speaker 1: this poor girl, what if? And last night she took

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Speaker 1: us back to how she felt in that race, and oh,

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Speaker 1: I have goosebumps through the whole thing. Here she is

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Speaker 1: talking about walking through the tunnel about to come out

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Speaker 1: into the stadium.

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Speaker 2: We're now being led to the stadium under the road,

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Speaker 2: and we're walking in silence. This is my step towards

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Speaker 2: the future. Now, I still feel a very overwhelming sense

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Speaker 2: of t tranquility, and I'm feeling calm. I'm feeling okay.

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Speaker 2: You can hear the spectacle, you can hear the voice

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Speaker 2: booming over the loudspeakers, and we're all still being held

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Speaker 2: together in this bubble of silence, and the clock is

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Speaker 2: ticking down. I have a distinct moment where I'm about

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Speaker 2: to turn the corner to go out onto the track,

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Speaker 2: and I remember somebody saying soon as I hear this person,

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Speaker 2: everything becomes like a blur and people seem to fade away,

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Speaker 2: and I know that people are going to see me.

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Speaker 2: It becomes otherworldly. You can almost hear your own heartbeat.

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Speaker 2: It's the strangest feeling. I don't hear anyone. I just

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Speaker 2: sense that I'm all alion actually wow.

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Speaker 1: And so then the race begins and she's got a

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Speaker 1: race plan in her head, her coach says, go out fast,

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Speaker 1: but not too fast, slow down a little, go into this,

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Speaker 1: but when you come around the corner, hit it. And

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Speaker 1: so when she comes around the corner, she's not in

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Speaker 1: first place. She's like third, and people in the start

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Speaker 1: to panic. Kathy's not winning. Everyone was anxious except for Kathy.

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Speaker 1: Have you listened to this.

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Speaker 2: I feel like I'm being protected. My ancestors were the

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Speaker 2: first people to walk on this land. It's a really

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Speaker 2: powerful force. Those other girls are always going to have

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Speaker 2: to come up against. You know, my ancestors. And I

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Speaker 2: know exactly what I need to do. I know how

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Speaker 2: to do this. I can do this in my sleep.

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Speaker 2: I can win this. I will win this. Who's going

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Speaker 2: to stop me? I go, I go, and I go.

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Speaker 2: I actually feel like someone has put me on a

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Speaker 2: cloud and I can't even touch the ground. I feel

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Speaker 2: my feet touched the ground. This is a feeling I've

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Speaker 2: never experienced before.

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Speaker 3: She looked like she was floating when she ran.

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Speaker 1: Oh, she absolutely did. Her feet didn't even touch the ground.

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Speaker 1: And the finish line and.

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Speaker 2: The moment I'm airborne across the line, I think to

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Speaker 2: myself for the first time, So this is what it

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Speaker 2: feels like to be an Olympic champion. All of a sudden,

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Speaker 2: I'm in a stadium filled with one hundred and nineteen

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Speaker 2: thousand people. I can't even hear a thing.

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Speaker 3: Except just this incredible, dense, thick, impenetrable energy and noise

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Speaker 3: that is almost too much to bear.

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Speaker 2: I just was completely flawed or something. Everybody was just

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Speaker 2: so at one together. It's like we were the only

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Speaker 2: people who existed in the world. So I sit down

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Speaker 2: and take my shoes off so I could feel that

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Speaker 2: bit of stability and groundness. I looked straight across to

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Speaker 2: the and I was disappointed with the time. I should

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Speaker 2: have run under forty nine, and I did it, and

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Speaker 2: I knew that I had a lot more in me.

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Speaker 2: I'm an Olympic champion, But this feeling of not feeling

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Speaker 2: completely satisfied, it's like an itch that's always.

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Speaker 1: A It was amazing. But she says too that you

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Speaker 1: mentioned that night, and I feel week be talking about

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Speaker 1: you mentioned that night in September and people smile. It

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Speaker 1: wasn't great, doesn't it seem? What wasn't it amazing? If

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Speaker 1: you didn't see the docco last night, check it out.

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Speaker 2: It was brilliant with James and Amanda