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<b>HE STEPPED UP:</b> Rafer Johnson, who ran a leg in the 1984 torch relay, didn't know he would be the final torch-bearer at the Coliseum until the Games' organizer, Peter Ueberroth, told him about 10 days before the opening ceremony.

Rafer Johnson

( Damon Winter / Los Angeles Times )

HE STEPPED UP: Rafer Johnson, who ran a leg in the 1984 torch relay, didn't know he would be the final torch-bearer at the Coliseum until the Games' organizer, Peter Ueberroth, told him about 10 days before the opening ceremony.

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