I'd like to take this opportunity to say thank you to Rhanyel for welcoming
me to this group and say hi to all the members. I realize we are a small
group, but it doesn't matter. If we can somehow manage to get some Australian
fans, we'll grow rapidly for sure.

As Rhanyel mentioned the other day, Cathy's biography "Cathy Freeman: A
Journey Just Begun" is currently on backorder at amazon.co.uk. However, I was
lucky enough to have placed my order before that happened, and I received a
notice that it was being shipped to me via DHL Express on Friday. Hopefully,
I will have it in my hands early next week. I will let you all know my
thoughts on it (if anyone cares) as soon as I can.

For your information: there is a huge collection of pictures available at
www.archive.newspix.com.au. Simply search for "Cathy Freeman" and the search
result will find 500 matches (although only the first 200 are displayed).
Clicking on each small picture will enlargen them with "NewsPix" stamped all
over, but for those of you who do not want to pay the hefty price of a clear
download (AU $192.50), perhaps you can manage to enjoy them with this little
nuisance. There are certainly some fantastic pictures of Cathy in action on
the track, of the Australian Olympic Homecoming parade, headshots of the
Olympic press conferences, and of Cathy her husband Alexander Bodecker among
others.

If anyone of you out there has a VHS copy of Cathy from the Sydney Games,
please let me know. Unfortunately, I missed her fantastic 400m performance,
as I was on a business trip at the time. In fact, I missed out on the entire
Olympics - didn't catch the Opening nor Closing Ceremonies. As you can
imagine, I am dying to get my hands on all these broadcasts. As far as I
know, Rhanyel is also looking for the broadcast of the 400m. So if anyone has
something on tape, please let us know.

I have gotten a little carried away on eBay recently and hopefully will
remain the high bidder on some Cathy items. If anyone is interested, I'll
tell you all about the items once I get them.

Well, I think this'll do as my welcome note to you all and I hope to hear
from everyone soon.

All the Best,

Kat