search
Muhammad Ali
Trends
- 1Muhammad Ali lit the Olympic flame 30 years ago, women recall the gasp▼Muhammad Ali was the Olympics' best-kept secret. 30 years later, the women who knew remember the gasp
USA Today recounts the story of Muhammad Ali secretly lighting the Olympic cauldron at the Atlanta 1996 Games, thirty years on. The piece features women who were in on the secret and remember the crowd's gasp when the boxing legend, battling Parkinson's disease, appeared with the torch in his trembling hands.