It’s one of the hot topics at the start of any Games, and one of the most closely guarded secrets: Who will light the Olympic cauldron in the stadium at the opening ceremony?
The New York Times has a pretty good record recently of predicting who gets the honor, so let’s try our hand at it again.
Typically, Olympic cauldron lighters are legendary athletes from the host country. At the 2010 Vancouver Games, for example, who else to light the cauldron but Wayne Gretzky? Four years ago, the South Korean figure skater Yuna Kim was chosen for the Pyeongchang Games.