Olympic Games costume drama may be over — 14 years later — mashable.com

It has been an enduring mystery of Sydney's 2000 Olympic games: whatever happened to Australian athlete Cathy Freeman's body suit, the main costume of the opening ceremony, after she lit the Olympic flame? Now, 14 years on, it may just have returned from its mysterious absence. On the night of Sept. 15, 2000, Freeman stood under a waterfall as she lit the impressive cauldron and it lifted above her head, filled with flames. Then the cauldron stopped moving, as the world waited. It sat stuck for three minutes before it finally rose up the steep incline to the top of the stadium — by which time Freeman had been utterly drenched in front of millions of viewers.

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