{"id":4473,"date":"2023-09-15T22:58:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T22:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/sydney-olympic-stadium-grandstand-named-after-indigenous-icon-freeman-daily-times\/"},"modified":"2023-09-15T22:58:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T22:58:04","slug":"sydney-olympic-stadium-grandstand-named-after-indigenous-icon-freeman-daily-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/sydney-olympic-stadium-grandstand-named-after-indigenous-icon-freeman-daily-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Olympic stadium grandstand named after Indigenous icon Freeman &#8211; Daily Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong><noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1132449 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/dailytimes.com.pk\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Sydney-Olympic-stadium-grandstand-named-after-Indigenous-icon-Freeman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"450\"\/><\/noscript>SYDNEY:<\/strong> The eastern grandstand of Sydney\u2019s Olympic stadium will be named after Cathy Freeman in tribute to the Indigenous runner who won the 400m gold medal at the venue during the 2000 Games. Freeman, who also lit the Olympic cauldron at the start of the Games, said she was honoured by the decision announced by the New South Wales state government on Friday. \u201cThis stadium and Sydney Olympic Park hold a truly special place in my heart and that will never change,\u201d the 50-year-old said. \u201cI hope that my story continues to inspire generations of girls and boys to chase their own dreams in sport and life.\u201d The grandstand will be named \u2018Cathy Freeman Stand\u2019. Watched by a record TV audience in Australia, Freeman\u2019s 400m triumph made her the first Aboriginal Australian to claim an Olympic gold in track and field, and the second to win any Olympic title following Nova Peris\u2019s field hockey gold at the 1996 Atlanta Games. Freeman also took the 400m silver at Atlanta and won back-to-back world titles in the distance. \u201cFor the past two Summer Olympic Games, Australia\u2019s Olympic team has comprised more women than men, all of whom have an inspirational story,\u201d Australian Olympic Committee President Ian Chesterman said in a statement. \u201cBut it\u2019s Cathy Freeman\u2019s achievement that continues to shine a light on what young women can achieve if they have a dream and they pursue it. We owe her a great debt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY: The eastern grandstand of Sydney\u2019s Olympic stadium will be named after Cathy Freeman in tribute to the Indigenous runner who won the 400m gold medal at the venue during the 2000 Games. Freeman, who also lit the Olympic cauldron at the start of the Games, said she was honoured by the decision announced by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dailytimes.com.pk\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Sydney-Olympic-stadium-grandstand-named-after-Indigenous-icon-Freeman.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}