One posting bright and early, then this
one late at night. I was just reading in
tomorrow’s Sydney Morning Herald that tomorrow, 69 days after the Olympic torch was lit in the shadow of Uluru,
it will leave Victoria and enter New
South Wales for the last stretch of a relay that has taken it around
Australia. The Olympic torch in New
South Wales – I just want to let that image fill my mind and heart. It gives me shivers to think of its last lap,
over a month from now, when its flame will be tipped into and light the Olympic
cauldron.
Mike and Kerry and Karen and all my
friends in New South Wales must be popping with excitement and pride. I have followed it every day, thanks to
reading the online version of the Sydney Morning Herald. What wonderful stories and first-hand
accounts.
I loved the story about the Reverend
Merrick Webb, who was part of the Olympic torch relay before the Melbourne
Games in 1956 and who will carry the torch again in 2000 – this time, he will
be in a wheelchair. Nothing holds back
Australians!
I am going to bed with goose bumps – Nan
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