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Giancarlo Peris has lit a cauldron to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1960 Rome Olympics, re-enacting the duties bestowed upon him half a century ago.
Peris won a regional race in 1960 that came with the prize of being the final torchbearer. Now 68, Peris jogged at an impressive pace up some stairs in Michelangelo's Piazza del Campidoglio before a crowd featuring dozens of medalists from the games and re-lit the cauldron.
The ceremony was held 50 years to the day of when the games began - Aug. 25, 1960.
Nino Benvenuti, who won the boxing welterweight division in 1960, and Don Bragg, the American pole vault winner, were among the speakers.
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Bragg concluded his speech with the same Tarzan yell he performed on the medal stand in 1960.
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