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i think it was Cathy freeman?

totally correct. Catherine Astrid Salome Freeman (thats her fullname), otherwise known as Cathy Freeman lit the Olympic flame in the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics.

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Cathy Freeman, who won a gold medal in the women's 400 meter run at these Games to become the first Australian aboriginal to win an individual Olympic gold medal.

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During the 1996 Olympics, Muhammad Ali received a replacement gold medal from the 1960 Olympics since he had lost his.

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Mohammad Ali Lit the torch in Atlanta in 1996

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Muhammed Ali

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