I was a kid when the Olympic torch came right past my Launceston house, and I felt the eyes of the world watching us. It captured my imagination in a way I'll never forget.
I was born in Tasmania in 1990 — in between the Seoul Olympics in '88 and Barcelona in '92.
I watched its journey every day on the news, and saw people like me on the TV — kids from all over Australia celebrating and waving at the flame and the cameras as they passed by on the long road to Homebush. It hitched a ride on 'the world's longest single span chair-lift' through the Cataract Gorge at the bottom of my street.Dylan says when the torch relay came to his own street it made the whole thing feel real.It left a huge impression on me: the Olympic Games had actually come to me.The Olympic flame was lit by the rays of the sun in Olympia, Greece, on May 10, 2000.
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