RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – The biggest mystery at the opening ceremony of most Olympics is who lights the cauldron that holds the flame.
The 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro are offering a second unknown: Will there be one flame, or two?
Rio organizing committee head Carlos Nuzman says “nothing has been decided” about having flames at two different venues.
Speaking Friday on the sidelines of the IOC executive board meetings, Nuzman says “I think we need to open the question.”
Under normal conditions, the Olympic cauldron would burn only at the Maracana Stadium, the venue for the opening and closing ceremonies. But Rio is using another stadium in the city for track and field, and that may also require the presence of the symbolic flame.