The first time Janet Evans watched her good friend Katie Ledecky swim away with the Olympic 1,500 meter race ... where she handed the torch to Muhammad Ali before he lit the flame during the ...

Janet Evans is a 5-time Olympic medalist who competed in swimming at Seoul (1988), Barcelona (1992) and Atlanta (1996). In 1996, she passed the torch to Muhammad Ali who lit the cauldron for the ...

That’s what Janet Evans is talking about as she ... Everything started well. Evans took the Olympic torch for a jog around the track, then climbed a ramp to hand it to Muhammad Ali, who lit ...

Four-time gold medalist swimmer Janet Evans, now 40 ... Streeter Lecka/Getty Images Evans carries the Olympic torch in 2004. She won the 400- and 800-meter freestyle at the U.S. National ...

Evans was also part of one of the most iconic moments in American Olympic history, handing off the torch to Muhammad Ali at the opening ceremony for the 1996 Games. “Janet has been a wonderful ...

LOS ANGELES, June 16. OLYMPIANS Steve Furniss and Janet Evans will carry the Olympic Torch today as it wends its way through greater Los Angeles. Furniss, a two-time Olympian, 1972 Olympic bronze ...

Janet Evans: I came on with [LA28 Chairman ... At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, you carried the torch and handed it Muhammad Ali, who lit the flame. What’s it going to be like when you see the ...

But as it happens, it was Ali who took the torch from Janet Evans, hands shaking, but proud as ever. The man who fought in some of the greatest fights in boxing history, was the subject of some of ...

Evander Holyfield did end up getting a big part—he jogged the Olympic Torch into the stadium, and then handed it off to Janet Evans, the Olympic swimmer. Janet took half a lap around the track ...

Below are images of the boxes to come out in May along with comments from each athlete, via General Mills: VIDEO: Janet Evans relives 1996 Olympic torch handoff to Ali Follow @nzaccardi Louganis: ...