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Enriqueta Basilio, First Woman to Light Olympic Cauldron, Dies at 71

Enriqueta Basilio, an athlete from Mexico and the first woman in history to light the Olympic cauldron, died recently at the age of 71.
It was 1968 when Basilio, a 20-year old track and field athlete, lit the Olympic cauldron at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Mexico City.
Basilio, the last torch-bearer of the Olympic flame that year, was given the enormous honor of lighting the cauldron, signaling the opening of her country’s first Olympic Games.
During the world tour of the Olympic flame ahead of the Olympic Games of Athens in 2004, Basilio held the torch once again during the passage of the flame through Mexico City.
Last year, she took part in the fifty-year anniversary celebration of the Mexico City Olympic Games, lighting for the last time a symbolic cauldron on the occasion of the festivities.
Basilio died on Saturday, October 26 in Mexico.

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