Atlanta, 1996: The Greatest. #50Days50Moments 36 years after winning Olympic boxing gold at the 1960 Rome Games, #MuhammadAli was given the honor of lighting the Olympic cauldron during the #openingceremony of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in #Atlanta. Ali, hands shaking from Parkinson’s disease, took the torch from Janet Evans and lit the flame, giving the world yet another moment of greatness from the ‘Greatest of All Time.’ It remains one of the most emotional and #iconic moments in #Olympics history | July 19, 1996 | 📷: Michael Cooper / Allsport | #GettySport #Rio2016 #RoadtoRio #GOAT #🇺🇸 #🐐 ⬇️ Click the link in our bio for more stunning Olympic moments...