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Historic.feed on Instagram: "During the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony, the lighting of the Olympic cauldron featured an iconic moment where the Olympic rings were also illuminated. ⁠ ⁠ After carrying the torch into the Coliseum and climbing a set of mechanical stairs, decathlete Rafer Johnson ignited a tube at the bottom of the cauldron. ⁠ ⁠ The flame then traveled along this tube, lighting up the five Olympic rings before continuing upwards to the cauldron, where it burned f