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Words and rhyme - game

Who will light the torch
For the next Winter Olympics?
They'll be in a fix
if they use a skater who falls and drops the flame!

(That almost happened in 1972 in Sapporo. A figure skater carried the torch around the ice track in the opening ceremony, to hand it over to whoever did the actual lighting. I remember watching the ceremony on TV with a group of kid skaters and we all gasped when the girl skidded and almost fell. I just now found an old video of the opening and was amused to see an obvious cut during her circuit of the field to blip out her stumble.)
 
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