Talk:List of torchbearers who have lit the Olympic cauldron

Official Torch Lighter of Lake Placid, 1980

I am removing the name of Charles Gugino as the person who lit the 1980 Winter Olympic cauldron in Lake Placid. As a replacement, I am entering in the name of the actual person who performed that duty, Dr. Charles Kerr of Tucson, Arizona. Kerr was selected by his peers of 52 American runners who carried the torch during the relay from Yorktown, Virginia to Lake Placid, NY.

Here is documented proof: 1) An article from the February 11, 1980 Arizona Daily Star newspaper about Kerr's selection as final torch bearer. https://ibb.co/5h0qnNf

2) An article from the February 14, 1980 Montgomery Advertiser newspaper about the opening ceremonies and a photograph of Dr. Kerr lighting the cauldron. https://ibb.co/NSVXnGS Random31908 (talk), 22:01, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

Official Torch Lighter of Vancouver

I have made an edit to the page as per the talk page of the previous article Olympic_Torch officially we should recognize Wayne Gretzky as the official torch lighter, as the torch inside the building was not recognized as the torch. It would be seen as part of the relay. Teamcoltra (talk) 00:40, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Reversal

I am reversing the above action because the Wikipedia articles on all four official lighters (Steve Nash, Nancy Greene, Wayne Gretzky, and Catriona Le May Doan) all have succession boxes stating they lit it together (as originally intended), along with the article on the previous Winter Olympics lighter (Stefania Belmondo). Furthermore, the above position only reflects ONE reason for the two cauldrons; as more fully explained in the opening ceremony article, IOC protocol requires the lighting to be witnessed both inside AND outside the stadium, literally impossible in an indoor stadium like BC Place--thus the two cauldrons. Thus, all four lighters should be recognized as BOTH cauldrons are "official", though only the outdoor one was lit during the Games. I will list them in this order (they will remain together in the succession boxes as they all represent the Vancouver Games):

• The three who lit the indoor cauldron in the opening ceremony are listed in the order in which they received the Olympic flame--Nash, Greene, Gretzky. Only video analysis could determine the order in which they literally lit the cauldron, but there is ample online documentation of the order of receipt; this also appropriately puts Gretzky last among the three to cover his lighting the outdoor cauldron.
• Le May Doan is listed after the first three as she didn't light the indoor cauldron until the closing ceremony.

--RBBrittain (talk) 14:00, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

When I wrote the above, I was planning to list the four lighters individually in the table. However, in reviewing both earlier edits that listed all of them and the treatment of past Olympics with multiple lighters (most notably 1956 which had two different cauldrons in two different countries), I decided during editing to put all of them together, albeit still in the above order. --RBBrittain (talk) 14:34, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Youth Olympics?

Does anyone think the Youth Olympic final torchbearers should be included in this article? --ProjectSavior (talk) 23:49, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

RowSpans

Perhaps some rowspans could be used for the occasions in which there are multiple people per year. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.167.97.235 (talk) 11:38, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

1928 and 1932

What about the Games of 1928 and 1932.195.169.141.54 (talk) 13:44, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

The torch relay began with the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. At Los Angeles in 1932, the flame in the cauldron was lit by a hidden stadium worker. Random31908 (talk) 00:51, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

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