JAMIE Dwyer had a hunch the ball would go to him. The Athens 2004 men's hockey final against the Netherlands was tied. 
The Kookaburras were staring into the black hole of another lost Olympic campaign unless they could break the deadlock.
Deep in overtime, Dwyer found the ball at his feet and he had a decision to make: hit or flick.
"I thought the ball might have been coming to me, but you never know, and once the ball came I actually didn't know whether I was going to hit it or flick it," he said.
Dwyer had two flick shots saved earlier in the match so he was leaning towards hitting the ball.
"This time the (defender) was a little closer than normal because I think he might have predicted the corner so I hit it, spur-of-the-moment thing," Dwyer said.
"It just missed his (the defender's) foot by about an inch I reckon, into the keeper's pads and up in the goal and then we ran off crazy." It was the gold medal-winning goal."We deserved to win, that's for sure. We just couldn't put the ball in the back of the goal in normal time," Dwyer said.