Memorable Olympic cauldron lighters

POSTED: 12:54 PM PDT Jul 26, 2012    UPDATED: 10:26 AM PDT Jul 27, 2012 

The Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics, which will include the lighting of the Olympic cauldron, is set to take place today. Take a look at memorable cauldron lighters from past Olympic Games.

Yoshinori Sakai
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Amateur runner Yoshinori Sakai, who was born near Hiroshima in 1945, the day the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb there. 1964 summer, Tokyo.

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