Osaka (Japan) Aug 31: Jana Rawlinson became the only second Australian to win two world titles after winning women's 400 metres hurdles.
Sydney: The Games are over, and the party's begun. Well the party's been on for quite sometime.
Sydney: If you had not heard of Cathy Freeman before Friday's Olympic opening ceremony, you will now.
Sydney: Alcoholic Charlie has trouble remembering the day, but as he sits around a smouldering fire in Sydney's Aboriginal ghetto he knows black Australia has a date with destiny when Cathy Freeman runs the Olympic 400 metre final.
Sydney (Reuters) - If you have not heard of Cathy Freeman, the chances are you soon will. Freeman is already a household name in her native Australia, but is destined to become a worldwide celebrity under the scrutiny of the world's media at the Sydney Olympics.
Sydney: The Sydney Games Organising Committee (SOCOG) said on Monday the aboriginal flag will be welcome at official venues, though there will be size limits.
Sydney: Jesse Owens is about to have a second Olympic coming. Sixty-four years after the son of an Alabama sharecropper astounded the world - and embarrassed Adolf Hitler - by winning four gold medals in Berlin, another Jesse Owens is about to experience the thrill of the Olympics.
Sydney: Marion Jones eased through the opening heats of the 200 metres on Wednesday as she began the toughest day of her attempt to win five Olympic golds.The newly crowned 100 metres champion won the opening heat in 22.75 seconds on a wet track."I said all along I think today is going to be the most difficult day for me, having two rounds of the 200 metres and then having to jump this evening after it's all done," she said."So I tried to conserve a bit of energy in the first round and I felt good."Jones, whose husband C J
Sydney: Australian Prime Minister John Howard said it was terrific. Opposition leader Kim Beazley said she had run 400 metres of reconciliation.Now comes the tough part. Aboriginal leaders have to harness the emotion sparked by Cathy Freeman's 400 metres Olympic victory on Monday to win equal rights and mend race relations.The Aboriginal runner, a potent symbol of national aspirations after her historic victory, was certainly eager to maintain momentum."Let the wheels turn on reconciliation," she said after her victory halted an adoring nation in its tracks."It's quite fitting that I have won an Olympic gold medal right now and reconciliation
Sydney: American Angelo Taylor won the men's 400 metres hurdles Olympics gold on Wednesday. Taylor timed 47.50 seconds to beat Saudi Arabian Hadi Souan Somayli and Llewellyn Herbert of South Africa.The 21-year-old Taylor came to Sydney with the year's best time of 47.62. It was the fifth Olympics in-a-row that an athlete from the United States has won the title. In all, the United States have won the event 17 times out of 22. Schumann upstages Kipketer in 800m finalMeanwhile, Nils Schumann of Germany upstaged three-times world champion Wilson Kipketer to win the men's 800 metres gold.Schumann, the 1998 indoor