An Importan woman.

Known as Cathy, Catherine Astrid Salome Freeman, is one of the most important sporty icons in Australia. Cathy was born in Mackay, Queensland and she is the first aborigine ever to compete in the Olympics.

Despite of all her achievements, Cathy had a difficult childhood having experiemented the racism against aboriginals. In the Olympics of 2000 in Sydney, Freeman won the gold medal in the 400 meters in those games. That was an important event because was the first time that the Aboriginal flag was waving in an important event such as the Olympics in which the best sportives all over the world show their abilities.

Although all of these achievements has been important for her life, she hadnt has a perfect life. During her childhood she won her first gold medal at a school athletics championship when she just had eight- years- old. Furthermore, her family was really poor and like many Aboriginals, suffered a wide discrimination from the white Australians. Once, after winning many competitions at the school, Cathy had to watch how the school gave her trophies to the white girls she had beaten just because they thought, she didn't deserve to receive them. Facing that, her family started to working pretty hard in order to help her to reach big competitions.

Cathy Freeman should be consider as a good example for overpassing difficulties in our life. Despite of the discrimination she had suffered, she keep reaching her dreams untill finally she was the first Aborigine to won a Gold medal in the Olympics.