How Muhammad Ali ended up lighting the torch during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics

Published on November 2, 2019 by Unstripped Voice

This great story is told by Dick Ebersol, the then-Senior advisor of NBC Sports, on how Muhammad Ali wasn’t the first choice to light the Olympic torch…

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