Answer: a. The moment the ball leaves the athlete's hand traveling upwards, reaches maximum height, then traveling downward till the moment just before the athlete catches it.
I think this is the answer. In Newtonian physics, free fall is any motion of a body where gravity is the only force acting upon it. The body is moving only under the influence of the earth's gravity.
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