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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 ...
Enriqueta Basilio carrying the Olympic torch and lighting the cauldron, becoming the first woman in Olympic history to do so. Norma Enriqueta "Queta" Basilio Sotelo (15 July 1948 – 26 October 2019) [1] [2] was a Mexican track and field athlete. She was born in Mexicali, capital of Baja California. She came from an athletic family; her father ...
His personal best times were 11.0 seconds for the 100m and 49.8 seconds for the 400m. He also competed in the traditional Berlin-Potsdam relay 40 times throughout his life. At the age of 26, Siegfried Eifrig was chosen to carry the Olympic Flame which lit the cauldron at the first Olympic torch relay.
Teddy Riner: Standing 6-foot-8 and weighing 290 pounds, Riner — nicknamed “Teddy Bear” — is one of the most physically imposing athletes in French history.A three-time Olympic gold ...
French former sprinter Marie-Jose Perec and French judoka Teddy Riner arrive to light the Olympic cauldron during the Opening Ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Yoshinori Sakai (坂井 義則, Sakai Yoshinori, August 6, 1945 – September 10, 2014) was the Olympic flame torchbearer who lit the cauldron at the 1964 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo. Biography [ edit ]
Lehanneur described them as "three chapters in the same story", with the cauldron representing liberty, gold medals, and serving as "the epilogue and the ultimate symbol of that story. Light, magical and unifying." [4] The cauldron consisted of a 7-metre (23-foot) diameter ring suspended from a 30-meter-tall (98 feet) helium-filled balloon.
The flame will now begin its journey in a relay to light the cauldron that will mark the opening for the Summer Games in July. The flame for the 2024 Paris Olympics has been lit in Olympia, the ...