The eastern grandstand at Accor Stadium will be the first to be named after a woman in NSW, the government says.
Australian sporting legend Cathy Freeman will be honoured by having the eastern grandstand of Accor Stadium named after her, in what the government says will be the state’s first to be named after a woman.
The move comes after a nomination process from the NSW government, which invited the public to choose a female athlete they believed deserved the honour.Cathy Freeman celebrates after winning gold at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.From that stand, tens of thousands of people watched Freeman light the Olympic flame to mark the start of the 2000 Sydney Olympics and win gold in the 400-metre final.
“I hope that my story continues to inspire generations of girls and boys to chase their own dreams in sport and life.” Premier Chris Minns said it was “about time” the state had a grandstand named after a woman, particularly after the success of the FIFA Women’s World Cup.“I want the next generation of young girls to watch sport at this stadium, looking up at the Cathy Freeman Stand, thinking about their own sporting dreams,” Minns said.
The decision comes after the NSW government last month announced a “giant” permanent mural had been commissioned to memorialise the Matildas’ success at the 2023 Women’s World Cup.
Australia Latest News, Australia Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Sydney Olympic stadium grandstand to be named after Cathy FreemanThe eastern grandstand at Accor Stadium will be the first to be named after a woman in NSW, the government says.
Read more »
Revealed: Top five Sydney train lines with worst disruption ratesTrain punctuality across Sydney’s rail network has taken a huge plunge and fallen behind expected targets, with statistics from the state’s transport authority indicating the worst performance in the last five-year period.
Read more »
Future of Sydney's Park'nPay app questionedA spokesperson for Digital Government Minister Jihad Dib confirmed to 9News that the former government hadn&x27;t set aside funding for the Park&x27;nPay app.
Read more »
Bob Katter slams Qantas board as ‘slithering Sydney suits’Katter’s Australian Party MP Bob Katter says he will be moving for an inquiry into the Qantas board. “These people that are the slithering Sydney suits that control the share market are corporations in Australia,” Mr Katter told Sky News Australia. He said both the BHP and Qantas boards have been known to appoint CEOs who “are not Australian”. “I have a particular interest here because amongst the first two or three hundred investors in Qantas was my family. “We lost a lot of money, but we didn’t lose money – we invested that money in providing a service for people of outback Australia.”
Read more »
Almost 100 abandoned cars are about to be sold by Sydney AirportSydney Airport had put up an advertisement listing the details of the almost 100 cars lying abandoned at its long-term carpark in a final attempt to contact their owners.
Read more »