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May 26, 2021 | 4:02 AM
(Reuters) â Winning a Grand Slam is the ultimate goal for most tennis players but Ash Barty says there is no greater honour than representing your country and the world number one sees the Olympic Games as the pinnacle of sport.
Barty, the 2019 French Open champion, cannot wait to pull on Australiaâs green and gold colours when the Tokyo Games begin in July after the event was postponed by a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tennis is normally an individual sport though women players also have the opportunity to represent their country at the annual Billie Jean King Cup.
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SYDNEY: Winning a Grand Slam is the ultimate goal for most tennis players but Ash Barty says there is no greater honour than representing your country.
Australia s best-loved Olympian Cathy Freeman has thrown her weight behind calls for urgent change to ensure there is always an Indigenous voice in federal parliament.
Freeman, now 48, rarely makes major public comments but on National Sorry Day she spoke powerfully in support of constitutional change. The time is now for an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voice to be enshrined in Australia s Constitution, Freeman tweeted.
Olympic hero Cathy Freeman has backed calls for an Indigenous voice in parliament via consitutional change - which could put her at odds with Prime Minister Scott Morrison. The Uluru Statement from the Heart is four years old today. Come on Australians. Support what is right and fair.
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