I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.

This occasion is personally very meaningful and I hope to visit Korea again if I have the chance.

I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends.

I'm certainly not ready to go changing the world overnight right now. I'm completely uninformed about a lot of our issues, a lot of the nation's issues, not just Indigenous issues.

With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.

I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.

My mind is pretty made up that life for Cathy Freeman will be as an unmarried woman from now on.