Four years later in Atlanta he weighed 360 when he won the gold. For Sydney he is nudging the scales just above 400. In Atlanta Chermerkin won with a world-record lift of 573 pounds in the clean and jerk. Look for the new heft on his frame to bring more records. But there are those who wish they weren't.
Freeman is the first Australian athlete of mixed-aboriginal heritage to win an Olympic medal.
In 1996 she was second behind France's Maria Jose Perec. But that was not her first international medal. At the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria she won the 400. And she made front-page news across Australia when she carried the Australian flag, but had the aboriginal flag draped over her shoulders. Most Aussies supported her sentiments, but there was a huge backlash against her.