TURIN, Feb. 8 (Xinhuanet) -- Following is a list of people who have lit the Olympic cauldron at previous Games:

1952 (Oslo, Norway) - Eigil Nansen, grandson of explorer Fridtjof Nansen

1956 (Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy) - Guido Caroli, speed skater

1960 (Squaw Valley, United States) - Kenneth Henry, speed skater

1964 (Innsbruck, Austria) - Josef Rieder, alpine skier

1968 (Grenoble, France) - Alain Calmat, figure skater

1972 (Sapporo, Japan) - Hideki Takada, school boy

1976 (Innsbruck, Austria) - Christl Haas, alpine skier

1980 (Lake Placid, United States) - Charles M. Kerr, doctor

1984 (Sarajevo, Yugoslavia) - Ivo Carman, nordic skier

1988 (Calgary, Canada) - Robyn Perry, school girl

1992 (Albertville, France) - Francois Cyril Grange, school boy

1994 (Lillehammer, Norway) - Haakon Magnus, royal prince

1998 (Nagano, Japan) - Midori Ito, figure skater

2002 (Salt Lake City) - 1980 Olympic gold winning US team, ice hockey