Cathy Freeman's Sydney 2000 gold was a moment of ecstasy at a time of national reckoning | Tony Birch

Few could comprehend the pressures on this young Aboriginal woman, thrust into the public eye when race relations dominated political discourse Cathy Freeman's 400-metre Olympic gold voted Australia's greatest sporting moment See how the top 10 polled In 1968, I was about to turn 11. Our family was living on a public housing estate in Richmond, consisting of row upon row of low-rise flats. I came from a boxing family. My great uncle, Les Moodie, had been the Australian bantamweight champion duri...