Li Ning is the athlete that did light the 2008 cauldron in Beijing.
In the 2010 opening ceremony in Vancouver, Wayne Gretzky lit the outside cauldron.
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The cauldron at the 1992 Summer Olympics was lit by archer Antonio Rebollo who shot a flaming arrow into the cauldron to ignite it.
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The flame on the cauldron is lit.
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1992 Barcelona Games, when Paralympic archer Antonio Rebollo ignited the cauldron by shooting a burning arrow over it from the stage in the stadium
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Searches for Olympic relay runners and those who have lit the cauldron revealed names beginning with "R" that include Rafer Johnson. He won the gold medal in the decathlon at the Summer Games in Rome in 1960, where he was also the US flagbearer. Johnson lit the cauldron at the Summer Games in Los Angeles in 1984.
Robyn Perry, a 12 year old aspiring figure skater.She was handed the torch by skier Ken Read and speed skater Cathy Priestner, ascended the stairs, and lit the cauldron.