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Ath: Perec and Freeman end four-year wait to forget Sydney
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AAP General News (Australia)
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August 24, 2004
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AAP General News (Australia)
08-24-2004
Ath: Perec and Freeman end four-year wait to forget Sydney
By Justin Davis
PARIS, Aug 24 AFP - Former rivals Marie-Jose Perec and Cathy Freeman have affirmed
their growing friendship after meeting for the first time in four years and since their
long anticipated battle for Olympic supremacy did not happen at the Sydney Games.
Perec, France's triple Olympic champion and probably their finest ever athlete, dramatically
fled Australia days before her duel with the Australian.
The Frenchwoman claimed to have fled along with boyfriend Athuan Maybank because of
a stalker but she later explained that the antagonism she encountered in Australia was
the ...
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