Who lit the Olympic cauldron at the 2024 Paris Olympics?

Teddy Riner and Marie-Jose Perec joined the exclusive list of people to light an Olympic cauldron when they set alight the Mathieu Lehanneur-designed boiler in Paris on Friday.

It looked as if Zinedine Zidane would light it, but he handed it off to Rafael Nadal. The Spanish tennis legend took the flame from French football hero Zidane in a unifying twist to the flame's path to Paris. 

The man they call Zizou was a tremendous football player for Spanish club Real Madrid and Nadal is one of the most dominant French Open competitors of all-time.

It would've been a pretty selfless gesture from France as the hosts to defer honor to their southwestern neighbor, and it was, but Nadal would give the torch to American tennis star Serena Williams, then Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci, and then American sprinter Carl Lewis.

Twenty-four athletes would wind up with a temporary hold on the torch, with the final job going to Riner and Perec.

So who are they?