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The first well-known major athlete to light the cauldron was nine-time Olympic champion Paavo Nurmi at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Other famous final torch bearers include 1960 decathlon gold medallist Rafer Johnson, who became the first person of African descent to light the cauldron at the 1984 Summer Olympics, [1] French football star Michel Platini (), heavyweight boxing champion ...
Torchbearers International (initially known as the "Capernwray Missionary Fellowship of Torchbearers" [7]) began in northern England at Capernwray Hall in 1947. It was the German youth who came in those early years to Capernwray who began calling themselves the “Fackelträger” or “carriers of the torch”, and so the name “Torchbearers” was born.
Torchbearer may refer to: The Torch Bearer, a 1916 American silent film; The Torchbearer, a 2005 Czech animated short film; The Torchbearers, a sculpture at the University of Texas at Austin; Torchbearers International, a network of Bible schools; VAW-125, a United States Navy squadron known as the Torch Bearers; A person who carries the ...
American rapper and actor Snoop Dogg will be one of the final torchbearers of the Olympic flame ahead of the Games’ Opening Ceremony in Paris on Friday.. Snoop Dogg, whose full name is Calvin ...
Olympic torchbearer. The rapper will carry the torch as part of the Games' opening ceremony Friday, a Paris-adjacent mayor announces. Snoop Dogg to blaze it up in Paris as a torchbearer for 2024 ...
Rafer Johnson, pictured as a flagbearer at the 1960 Summer Olympics, was the first torchbearer. A runner carrying the torch near Tampa, Florida Muhammad Ali, the surprise final torchbearer, pictured in 2004. After burning in Athens for three weeks, HOC president Antonios Tzikas formally handed the flame to ACOG president Billy Payne on April 26.
A torchbearer carries the Olympic flame over a building along the Seine River during the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 in Paris, France on July 26, 2024.
The Capernwray Missionary Fellowship of Torchbearers (CMFOT) is an evangelical Christian educational organisation based at Capernwray Hall in north Lancashire, England.In 1998 the organisation was incorporated as a UK charitable company.