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By Tim Kelly, Sam Nussey and Sudipto Ganguly
TOKYO, July 23 (Reuters) - Battered by scandal on the eve of the opening ceremony, Tokyo 2020 organisers have the chance to patch up the Games image when they reveal today who will carry the Olympic flame for the final few steps to light the stadium s cauldron.
The identity of the final torchbearer is one of the Games most closely held secrets yet speculation has swirled for months around well-known athletes including Naomi Osaka https://jp.reuters.com/article/uk-tennis-frenchopen-factbox/factbox-japans-naomi-osaka-who-withdrew-from-the-french-open-on-monday-idINKCN2DC1VR, the four time Grand Slam tennis champion, whose superstar status could also draw attention away from the string of gaffes https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/tokyo-2020-plagued-by-embarrassing-scandals-gaffes-2021-07-22 by organisers in the build-up to the Games.
Jul 23, 2021
Lighting the Olympic cauldron, even at a Games somewhat deflated by the coronavirus pandemic, is one of the highest honors in sport. Names as big as Wayne Gretzky and Muhammad Ali have done it, but so have an obscure archer and a 12-year-old schoolgirl.
So predicting who will do it at this year’s opening ceremony Friday must be a near impossible task, right?
Well consider that The New York Times correctly predicted in 2016 that Vanderlei de Lima, a marathon bronze medalist, would get the honor. In 2012, a group of unknown teenagers were chosen to light the cauldron, but our pick of rower Steven Redgrave was the last prominent athlete to hold the torch, so we are taking partial credit.