 This showdown never happened, as Pérec left the Games after what she describes as harassment from strangers.Freeman won the Olympic title in a time of 49.11 seconds, becoming only the second Australian Aboriginal Olympic champion (the first was Freeman's 4 × 400 teammate Nova Peris-Kneebone who won for field hockey four years earlier in Atlanta).After the race, Freeman took a victory lap, carrying both the Aboriginal and Australian flags.