When is the ball in a state of free fall?

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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the skeletons of most mammals reach a certain size and then stop growing. however, many animals, including some mammals, keep growing throughout their lives. kangaroos, for example, just keep growing and growing until they die. also, the longer an animal lives the greater the chance it might catch some deadly disease.