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- 1The secret behind Muhammad Ali's 1996 Olympic flame▼Muhammad Ali was the Olympics' best-kept secret. 30 years later, the women who knew remember the gasp
A look back at one of the Olympics' most iconic moments: Muhammad Ali, secretly chosen to light the cauldron at the 1996 Atlanta Games, surprising the world as he appeared, trembling from Parkinson's disease, to ignite the flame. Thirty years on, the women who helped keep the secret recall the gasp that swept the stadium when his name was revealed.