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- 1Women who kept Muhammad Ali's Olympic torch secret recall the gasp▼Muhammad Ali was the Olympics' best-kept secret. 30 years later, the women who knew remember the gasp
Thirty years after Muhammad Ali secretly lit the Olympic flame at the 1996 Atlanta Games, the women who helped organise the surprise are recalling the moment. His identity was the ceremony's best-kept secret, and when he appeared with the torch, the stadium gasped. Those involved remember the emotion of witnessing the ailing boxing legend take centre stage one last time.