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List of people who have lit the Winter Olympic cauldron
www.chinaview.cn 2006-02-09 09:24:50

    TURIN, Feb. 8 (Xinhuanet) -- Following is a list of people who have lit the Olympic cauldron at previous Games:

    1952 (Oslo, Norway) - Eigil Nansen, grandson of explorer Fridtjof Nansen

    1956 (Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy) - Guido Caroli, speed skater

    1960 (Squaw Valley, United States) - Kenneth Henry, speed skater

    1964 (Innsbruck, Austria) - Josef Rieder, alpine skier

    1968 (Grenoble, France) - Alain Calmat, figure skater

    1972 (Sapporo, Japan) - Hideki Takada, school boy

    1976 (Innsbruck, Austria) - Christl Haas, alpine skier

    1980 (Lake Placid, United States) - Charles M. Kerr, doctor

    1984 (Sarajevo, Yugoslavia) - Ivo Carman, nordic skier

    1988 (Calgary, Canada) - Robyn Perry, school girl

    1992 (Albertville, France) - Francois Cyril Grange, school boy

    1994 (Lillehammer, Norway) - Haakon Magnus, royal prince

    1998 (Nagano, Japan) - Midori Ito, figure skater

    2002 (Salt Lake City) - 1980 Olympic gold winning US team, ice hockey Enditem

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