The Rio Olympic Opening Ceremony is Aug. 5, 2012, and the star of the night is already a topic of conversation.
Who will light the Olympic cauldron at the Maracanã?
All signs point to Pelé as the favorite, but while the soccer icon is perhaps Brazil’s greatest athlete of all time, he never played in an Olympics.
If Rio organizers choose an Olympian as the final torch bearer, they could look to a man who competed in the trademark event of the Games, endured an attack and offered forgiveness to a man tried to ruin the race of his life.